Anyone use OnStar with the 4g hotspot?

If your instant can hotspot that onstar ATT now has a deal where you can get unlimited data 22 g and then may be throttled if in a congested cell tower. Most report not throttling. This is the same thing that you can get with a mobley device .. which goes in the obd port. There are lots of posts on this, here and other forums .. google mobely. It appears to be sold out everywhere . The device is for those without a late model wifi on star ..or for those who just want a deal without the car ( adapter to plug mobley into without the car) luckily you don't need the mobley to take advantage of this offer
In any case you can blow away the 3 gig deal with the "limited time" unlimited offer for 20 bucks per month

it all depends on your application what the value of the wifi and phone is to you.

1) The wifi and phone use higher power than your normal cell phone so it can give you coverage in areas you don't get coverage with an regular GSM phone. It uses ATT as a carrier
2) If you currently have ATT service you can add it as a line to your normal service
3) If you have a CDMA carrier, such as verizon, and you will have a better chance of getting service since now you have access to both system, GSM and CDMA
4) it will NOT guarantee coverage everywhere.
5) you can run the wifi for about 10 or 15 minutes with the ignition off. the trick is to turn to accy, wait for radio to come on, turn key to off and remove and get out the PASSENGER side of the car. If you get out the drivers side opening the drivers door turns everything off.

we use it because we travel in many places where either GSM or CDMA service is not available and it gives us both carrier options since our cell phones are CDMA

so decide if you want the phone and/or wifi and pick and choose.

We had On-Star on both our vehicles when we purchased them new. After the trial, we let it die.

Then we were somewhere in Tennessee at a very remotely located diesel-gas station. We were all outside the truck and our SmartPhones were inside the cab, windows rolled up when "it" happened!

Dog stepped on the door locks and locked all the doors! Panic! Shock! What do we do now! We're in the middle of no where and all the keys are inside the truck. We couldn't even access the trailer. And we're parked in a fuel pump bay.

My adult son was with us, and luckily, he had his phone in his pocket. We were able to finally call OnStar after going through hoops, and they remotely unlocked our doors. While we had the representative on the line, we renewed our On Star subscription right there on the spot! We carry just the basic minimum so we can unlock the doors with our SmartPhones if it ever happens again. We went ahead an kept it for the car too. It's kind of nice when one of us is on our way to or from work, the other one can track where the vehicle is with the map/gps system. And it's nice to start the truck (diesel) in the winter when I'm at work and let it warm up before leaving the building.

We decided the On-Star WIFI Hot Spot, or whatever it is was not worth it. Like you, we have all that capability with our SmartPhones, we don't need internet access via the vehicles. It's an extra cost and since we have it on the phones anyway, it did not make sense for us.

Because we do a lot of work from home, we finally went with an unlimited data plan for our phones, and for our purposes, the phones and the phones hot spot for our laptops and I-pad and traveling has worked very well for us.

For only a few dollars a month, it IS worth it to be able to unlock your doors if you leave your keys inside (or the dog steps on the door locks)!!!!