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IP Modem Tethering Coming To BlackBerry Desktop Manager

August 31, 2009 by Robb Dunewood 4 Comments

BlackBerry Desktop Manager will soon have a new feature, IP Modem, which will allow you to tether your BlackBerry to your laptop as a wireless IP modem.  (Actually already available in a leaked version of BDM 5.0.1.16)

Tethering your BlackBerry to your laptop to be used as a wireless modem is not a new or novel idea.  Verizon, with their Mobile Broadband Connect has supported this (with an additional monthly fee) on various BlackBerry devices for years.  Other carriers do as well and there are programs like TetherBerry that make this a reality without the extra fee from the carrier.

What will be interesting to see is what kind of model RIM implements (or is forced to implement) based on edicts from the carriers on that often charge for tethering.  Carriers, for the most part, have left subscribers using applications like TetherBerry alone.   Will carriers, however, take the same hands off approach when wireless tethering opens up to the masses as just an upgrade to BlackBerry Desktop Manager?

I am guessing probably not…

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  1. The Rock says

    August 31, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    RIM should not implement (or be forced to implement) based on any edicts from the four orifices. What is good for consumers is good for RIM. What is good for the four orifices is not good for consumers or RIM.

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  2. Nic says

    September 1, 2009 at 10:42 am

    I hope this option is available on the DM for Mac.

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  3. newt says

    September 2, 2009 at 11:18 pm

    @ The Rock

    So when are starting your own carrier.

    Reply
  4. payne says

    January 1, 2011 at 9:23 am

    can you do that with a desk top computer also ues ur black berry also?

    Reply

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