I got a new phone yesterday, the ZTE Warp (
http://cnet.co/vGJld1) through boost mobile. Decent coverage in my area. Anywho, I found this great app, pdanet. If you have heard of it, you already know that its like a 2 click tether. So after all this time, about 6 months now I have finally got a phone and a company that will allow me to tether decent internet speeds. Not really good streaming speeds but good browsing speeds, about 100k/s. I pay 45 dollars a month unlimited talk/text/web or 2 dollars a day with the prepaid. No contract, its great. Something to look into if you have it in your area, also the parent company is sprint, so you pretty much get their coverage as well as nextel (they owned boost before sprint bought them out).