Here on Verizon in the states there is no separate charge for tethering.
It just uses up whatever data plan you already have on the phone. I have
a 1GB plan so if I turn on tethering my phone just shows up as a wifi
hotspot. I can then connect my Mac laptop to it and download/send email
or whatever. Kind of handy when you're somewhere without wifi. One
warning is that if you have two devices tethered, if they talk to each
other that counts as data up and back from your provider. I was reading
about one person who had two kids sharing a game of Minecraft on two
iPads via his iPhone and they quickly ate through his data plan even
though they were just connecting to each other (no external servers are
needed for Minecraft).
CB
On 1/10/16 2:49 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
“Personal Hotspot” (or “Tethering”) is Apple’s silly name for using your iPhone
to share a limited Internet connection to other devices, with the primary
connectivity being provided to the phone by your carrier. With the “Personal
Hotspot” feature, your iPhone broadcasts a wireless signal that your other
devices can connect with, much as you do home Wi-Fi. Options also exist for
using Bluetooth PAN (which still has its uses on devices that have support for
it) or a USB cable. It is very similar to, but not the same as, using your
phone as a modem, because the iPhone shares your connection with all the
computers and devices connected to it. You are really better off buying a
dedicated device for this function though, because the feature has restrictions
imposed on it by Apple and/or the carriers that make it pretty useless for
anything but travel situations.
I don’t know about your network, but down here in the UK the “Unlimited” plans
distinguish tethered and non-tethered usage. You usually pay extra for the
feature to be switched on as part of your plan, and then there is typically a
separate cap just for tethering that is distinct from the unlimited phone
usage. Pretty stupid, really, when you realise that you can easily hook up
your phone to a TV an enjoy a full 1080P HD movie just using the phone.
Clearly, “Unlimited” is a deception, but our neoliberal advertising authority
is just fine with it, seemingly because everybody in the industry is doing it
and they don’t regard it as false advertising so long as only a small number of
potential buyers are inconvenienced. Rant rant rant, etc.
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