[General Questions and Answers] shnn2011:
Agreed the problem is in their method of detection, however there is also a major problem in their philosophy, where they would despotically taking such egregiously asinine, ineffective and capricious discriminative attack on their paying customers.

Yes its discrimination in my opinion. Just because your User Agent String is Strange, then you must be tethering.

That is such an ignorant assumption it makes me sick.

So what is fair for both sides? Well its preety fair that your paying them every month. Should it not be fair for the consumer to get what they pay for? Instead the custumer is getting their legitimate software disabled even though they are in line with the contact. Why are you defending T-mobile so much. Your statements are really quite suspicious. I don't know if you have any intrest or are employed by T-Mobile our not, but I believe that the readers and contributors to XDA are quite educated and propaganda won't be easily believed.

Then you state that business had nothing to do with checks and balances. Of course not. Honestly, what a senseless thing for anyone to say; we all know that. It is the law that is based on checks and balances, and it its the law that regulates business. Its in our history, just look at the Ma Bell divestiture: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture

And don't Getty me started on the Microsoft antitrust cases: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

Then you made the silliest statements I have ever heard on this thread. You started that I should ask an AT&T engineer about backhaul capacity when were on a completely different network, and made statements regarding how TCP / IP is transferred makes all the diffrence when you clearly are uneducated about how you cell phone establishes connectivity you should read:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Telephone_Switching_Office

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/3G/technology/index.html

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r26828768-Need-Info-Question-about-providing-backhaul

Furthermore, Many point to point backhaul radios can support gigabit communications and some are fed by fiber, copper . . .

You can not make assumptions without knowing what is used. I do not need to ask an AT&T tech because:

1. This is a discussion about T-Mobile not AT&T

2. I can research and read books and don't just believe anything flying around in the internet.

3. I have formal education in the field, but do not flaunt it, because XDA readers and contributors are generally educated.

4. AT&T had invested lots of money early and are trying to get their money's worth out of it.

As evidence to the unused bandwidth that is available just do a speed test. Many people with a good here in Houston generally get 17 megabits per second or even faster. Does YouTube really need 17 megabits power second? It would easily work with less than a seventeenth of that.

Seriously, don't make any more claims or assumptions until you know what is going on; that's just frivolous.

I would be more than happy to point you over to more sources of education if you would like.

As for carrier I.Q. Many phones still have it winning in the background even though they opted out. Why is it still there and running? Without a proper forensic analysis its is senseless for you to make such a claim. You don't know what's truly going on. Please refer to the sources in my previous posts, as amatter of fact go do your own research too.