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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nazpaz wrote: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.
Pretty good link. The only thing they are somewhat coy about is the throttling sentence. They lead you to believe that 4G can and is being throttled. Which clearly isn't the case. And following their own link about throttling shows that 3G is the only service with VZW that can be throttled.
Just wanted to clear that up, because there are so many people that aren't exactly clear on what issues or non issues there are with tethering on a VZW phone.
In the end, unless a person has unlimited data, which can only be had in a real roundabout way and a big pain in the rear, none of this really matter to a new subscriber.
New subscribers will be on a capped data plan, and included on those plans is free tethering, as required by the FCC.
