Tethering is awesome. It's the act of using your cell phone as a high-speed modem for your laptop. Alas, usually it involves jailbreaking or unlocking your phone, or paying your carrier exorbitant ...

Those who jailbreak or root your phone to allow free tethering better be ready. The tethering police are coming, and they know who you are.

But all things being equal, tethering apps like PDAnet and Tether didn't seem to consistently deliver the same speeds to my laptop that I could get on the phone alone. Want proof?

Cell Phones and Tethering - Part 2 How can you not have a cell phone!? Posted Sep 01, 2008 ...

Tethering, the act of connecting your mobile phone to your Mac or PC to use it as a modem, is allowed by some mobile carriers with the purchase of an extra data plan but forbidden by others.

A feature called instant tethering previously let people with Google's own Chromebooks and phones quickly get online using their phone's mobile network.

Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 operating system won't allow tethering, the company said Friday.

Buried inside many of the latest smartphones is a capability that few people take advantage of. A feature called tethering lets a phone go beyond talk, email and Web surfing to act as a mobile ...

The FCC has determined that Verizon is not allowed to prevent its customers from downloading third-party tethering apps and circumventing the carrier's extra $20 tethering charge.

Chromebook users might soon be able to use the Instant Tethering feature with other non-Google Android phones. Currently, Instant Tethering only works with Nexus and Pixel phones.

Cell phone signal-carrying infrastructure is very fragile and wafer thin in many regions. Major urban crises overwhelm cell phone capacities to deliver connectivity in widespread disasters.