AT&T Unlimited Data $ Increase
Well, Verizon did it a couple of months ago; now it is AT&T's turn. Less $ than Verizon at a $5.00 per month increase, however AT&T still slows you down if you go over 22GB per month and no "official...
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Tethering means to hard wire the phone to your computer via the mini USB jack and use it as a internet connection. Anymore it has been generalized to include using the wireless hotspot.
I used PDA.net to tether my Cricket Galaxy S4 until they opened up the hotspots for $10 a month. There was a risk that they would see the difference in the data I was using and had it affect the account as it was against the terms. There are ways to turn on the hotspots when they don't want them to work too.
Why don't they want you tethering without the extra charge? Because you can use a lot more data while tethering. Even the sites that load on your computer have more data than the mobile site would.
For us the two Cricket Phones provide 20 gigs a month at 4g and then they are throttled. The back ups are a Freedompop hotspot with a free gig of data a month and a Ringplus phone with a free gig and a half a month. That free 2 1/2 gigs would run us $30 at $10 a gig through Cricket.
I used PDA.net to tether my Cricket Galaxy S4 until they opened up the hotspots for $10 a month. There was a risk that they would see the difference in the data I was using and had it affect the account as it was against the terms. There are ways to turn on the hotspots when they don't want them to work too.
Why don't they want you tethering without the extra charge? Because you can use a lot more data while tethering. Even the sites that load on your computer have more data than the mobile site would.
For us the two Cricket Phones provide 20 gigs a month at 4g and then they are throttled. The back ups are a Freedompop hotspot with a free gig of data a month and a Ringplus phone with a free gig and a half a month. That free 2 1/2 gigs would run us $30 at $10 a gig through Cricket.
