Apple CEO Steve Jobs answered a customer question on Friday, making it quite clear that the iPad will not support tethering to the iPhone. A Swedish Mac user emailed Jobs directly to ask whether or not he could tether a Wi-Fi only iPad to his iPhone to provide an Internet connection, according to 9 to 5 Mac. Not one to waste words, Jobs simply replied, “No.”

On some jailbroken iPhones it is possible to create a Wi-Fi network, allowing other devices to connect and use the 3G data plan. This option isn’t available unless the phone is jailbroken.

Tethering is something that users have been hounding AT&T for, but the company has failed to deliver. A possible reason is that AT&T is worried about tethering bringing its network down.

AT&T’s network has been brought down in major cities around the U.S. before, so it is a reasonable assumption.