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I’m sure not too many people were happy yesterday when we discussed Sprint limiting their mobile broadband service. No one likes limitations, especially on the Internet, which we’ve been used to getting on an unlimited basis. Today, though, we learn that they have at least helped out consumers in one way. According to PhoneNews.com, they’ll be dropping their phone as a modem tethering service from $40 per month to $15. That’s quite a hefty and welcome drop.

The catch — of course there’s a catch — is that this feature is only available on newer phone plans. This means Simply Everything, Sprint Everything, and Everything Plus. PhoneNews speculates that this move is to get people out of old plans, which they are grandfathered into. It wouldn’t be a poor tactic. It might also encourage anyone to sign up fro the program.

So is this a fair trade-off? A $25 discount on tethering in exchange for broadband limits? Eh.

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