Well now, AT&T just announced what Gizmodo is (rightfully) calling “the death of unlimited mobile bandwidth” — no more unlimited plans at all, and the replacement plans, well, they pretty much suck.

And tethering? Don’t get me started. Now AT&T has decided that they will charge you an extra $20 a month for tethering. FOR THE SAME DATA. There isn’t any extra bandwidth allocation, you use the same 2 GB / month data as if you had the DataPro plan ALL BY ITSELF.

This, my friends, is what we call a “ripoff”, speaking technically of course.

The kicker is all the PR crap about unlimited data on the iPhone and iPad, which were core selling points a mere few weeks ago - never worry about your contacts, your online data, etc - all in the trash heap now.