If you're looking for someone to tell you what you want to hear, you've come
to the wrong place.

Sorry.

Notan

Sure, you can do it, but that doesn't mean you aren't going to charged up the
wazoo for it.

The problem here is that, until quite recently, "phone as modem" usage was not
officially allowed *at all* on Sprint -- but plenty of people did it anyway,
and so long as the use was relatively small, Sprint didn't bother persuing
people doing it.  (In fact, until a year or so ago, on many phones it wasn't
possible to tell whether data usage was from a "phone as modem" vs. just from
the phone's built-in web browser.)

At present, if you *don't* have a "phone as modem" plan, it seems as though
tethering still *works* on the phones, but presumably Sprint could start
charging you the "casual usage" fee ($20/MB) and you really couldn't contest
it when you were socked with $100 for just checking your e-mail with a
laptop -- but you can find people saying they aren't being charged this at
present.

Finally, realize that there are some people on this newsgroup who will only
parrot what Sprint officially supports rather than what people actually *do*
with their phones.  But the bottom line is that you're taking a risk of being
hit with large unexpected fees if you tether a phone and *don't* have a phone
as modem plan.

---Joel Kolstad