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afterdigital 
not sure what you mean by all this but As for tethering, are you asking how to tether?
no there are numerous guides on the subject.
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change to accessible hardware? you mean the sim card to a different carrier?
not a different carrier, a different device such as a different compatible phone (whether carrier unlocked or att native)that can utilize the EDGE data from the iphones data plan. ie an external computer
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By updates and downgrades, are you hacking your iphone and would like to keep the hacks and tethering?
That is the purpose of this thread, is to explore options that will not require constant "hacking" to keep data available for other devices.
While I am sure the cat and mouse game will continue adinfinitum I really have no desire to continuously keep up with it.
I wish to find other modes of supplying data service while retaining the iphone and iphone data plan by pulling the sim and plugging it into a device that will let me use the data for times when it is needed or practical to do so.
My idea is to simply keep a iphone sim ejector pin handy where ever it may be needed and run a remote sim “bay” to whatever device I might find that will allow me to use the edge data for a carputer.
By remote sim bay I mean I can get a sim card tray (hopefully a pop in, push to pop out) and remotely mount it in the dash so it is not a larger hassle than it needs to be to swap between phone usage and computer tethering; and wire it to a device that will allow me to utilize the EDGE data service and hopefully route calls through phoneco or other compatible software.
Does this help make my query more clear?
I wish to keep the iphone in an unhacked state, but still wish to utilize the EDGE data in one form or another through a different device capable of utilizing the iphone dataplan