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Hi,

Can iPhone questions/concerns be posted here?
Or is it too controversial?

The issue has to do with tethering and iPhone OS 3.0
and their relation to Visual Voicemail flag settings display
in  the Phone app.

My observation is that if you have the tethering hack
installed on a 3.0 phone, your profile won't permit
visual voicemail in the Phone App.

Likewise, if you set your Settings/General/Network/Data
visual voicemail to acsd.voicemail instead of wap.cingular,
it breaks your tethering.

Thus, tethering and visual voicemail flag appear to be mutually
exclusive.

Anyone else experience this?

Note: one cannot upgrade to >3.0x since tethering there
is broken, if you have a certain version of firmware. Also,
going back from >=3.1* to 3.0x apparently isn't possible
so one has to step gingerly here.

By the way, I am in the camp that once/someday Verizon
offers the iPhone 3Gx or iPhone 4G on their LTE network,
I'll be the first to switch and leave AT&T.

The reason?

Verizon's Palm Treo offering for *years* permitted full tethering
without any controversy or issue. Why? Because Verizon is
confident in their network. I don't think AT&T is yet confident
in their network's capability/scope.

--Stuart