Using a cell phone as a wifi router
I just discovered that you can pay a monthly fee and some of the newer cell phones will act as a wifi receiver/router. As long as you have cell phone coverage you can get internet. Does anyone do th...
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srt20 wrote:
It is not illegal and never has been illegal to use a tethering app such as PDANET, regardless of if you have/had an unlimited plan or capped plan. You cannot get into trouble with the law, no tickets, no probation, no jail time.
What Verizon COULD do is rip up your contract and kick you out. They might also try charging you more money.
Though I have never ever heard of any person ever getting the boot. I have heard of VZW sending out a text message warning. But even that was second hand heresay.
At first I thought you were wrong but now I get your point. A person on a grandfathered plan who is tethering might be breaking their TOS but they aren't in danger of having the police knock at their door.
Good point.
For those who are interested, here's the grandfathered unlimited data/no tethering information as is reported by Zdnet.
