Can’t I Tether Up My iPhone …?
Tethering is a feature that allows you to use your mobile smartphone as modem to connect to the Internet or corporate LAN over your carrier’s cell phone network. 
Unfortunately, Apple has not integrated tethering into the iPhone — both the original EDGE data network model or the iPhone 3G.
Nor is it (apparently) going to allow anyone else to offer an iPhone tethering app of their own through the AppStore.
Nullriver, which had seen its NetShare iPhone tethering application put up and then taken down from the App Store for no apparent reason, appears to have gotten a definitive answer on where Apple stands on the matter.
A recent posting to the company’s blog reads:
Looks like Apple has decided they will not be allowing any tethering applications in the AppStore. As such, NetShare will not be available in the iTunes AppStore. We are seeing a lot of similar reports from various developers who’s applications were abruptly removed and banned from the AppStore without any violations of the terms of service.
This is all unfortunate news for the iPhone platform end-users. 
Talk about free enterprise!
More at PDAStreet.
And thanks to TUAW.com for the graphic.
Tags: apple, appstore, iphone, itunes, netshare, nullriver, tethering, tuaw.com
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