Device connected to iPhone hotspot, now all data considered "Tether Data"?

I just got my iPhone 4 yesterday, with the $20 2G hotspot option.
So, what I attempted to do was tether my iPad to my iPhone so I could keep my twitter feed up. I ran Pandora on my iPhone. When I checked my usage data, there were multiple MB of data listed as tethered data. I expected to see a couple KB of tethered data and the larger chunk under network data.
My thinking is that the data used on the phone is network data, the data used by the connected wifi device is tethered data. It seems all of the data being used by my phone is considered tethered when a device is connected, whether that device is using data or not.
Is this acurate? If this is how it works, it's {word filter avoidance}

jimfitzgerald wrote:
I doubt they could keep it separate even if they wanted to. I don't know.
i agree. i don't think that even if vzn's intent was for it NOT to work this way, i don't know how they could track and segregate the data. it all flows through the iphone so i'm guessing there is no way to decipher what is used by the phone and what is being used by the other devices.

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