Mobile Hotspot - Epic 4G General

So I'm going to be getting an Epic 4g soon and one of the big features that enticed me was the mobile hotspot. My college doesn't have school wide wifi which is a huge pain in the ass so this feature would make things a hell of a lot easier. Now I see that you have to pay $30 for the feature. My dad is the one that pays the bill and he still uses and instinct so I doubt he would want to pay an extra 30 bucks a month and quite frankly, I wouldn't either. I've heard that there are apps on the market that allow you to wireless tether without paying the extra fee. Could someone tell me if this is true and if so, could someone explain them to me? Thanks in advance.

Root your epic and use the free wireless tether app. I was able to do it by following instructions on this site. Runs like a champ and I'm saving $30/mo.
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[Q] Sprint Hotspot question

Do we get charged extra if we use the "Sprint Hotspot" app included on the phone?
It's $29.99/month to use it.
Highway robbery imho. Just root and get that feature for free. If I am already paying for the data that is transmitted via my phone, I am not going to an additional fee just to use it how I please. That is my main reason to root, the roms are icing on the cake.
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They are currently not charging for it. If you use it you are basically using it for free. That will change soon though. Also, why would you steal with a free wifi tether app? 29.99 for real working people is a great deal. Its not for you kids working that can't afford it.
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When I tried to activate it in 4G or 3G mode, it disables the network connection and thus prevents me from using it. So I think if you're not paying for it, they simply don't allow it to work.
Oh ok... Thanks for the replies guys
29.99 is a ripoff... I'm already rooted so I'm going to uninstall it and use wifi-tether
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They are currently not charging for it. If you use it you are basically using it for free. That will change soon though. Also, why would you steal with a free wifi tether app? 29.99 for real working people is a great deal. Its not for you kids working that can't afford it.
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How do you steal data that you are already paying for? The part that costs is the amount of bandwidth that is used so how is it fair for a person that uses 4-7GB/month via the phone only pays less than the guy that uses 2-3GB/month using data on phone and tethering? Please, explain the logic.
Doesn't matter how you slice it. You signed a contract. Its stealing. Sure id rather have it with no tether fee but I'm not gonna go and steal.
Your logic is computing to make things go your way. If you don't like the price don't use. Otherwise... steal away...
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Yea its stealing, but I dont care. I download music and movies and speed on the highway. These are minor things that dont matter much. Rules can be bent, and its upto each individual if they fine with doing that. Maybe when I graduate from college and have a job I might pay for stuff like this, but right now I dont give a damn.
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ravizzle said:
Yea its stealing, but I dont care. I download music and movies and speed on the highway. These are minor things that dont matter much. Rules can be bent, and its upto each individual if they fine with doing that. Maybe when I graduate from college and have a job I might pay for stuff like this, but right now I dont give a damn.
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Hey, at least you know its stealing. Just annoys me when people think they make their own rules on someone elses terms. It sucks that we gotta pay but people gotta make money somehow and for 29.99 compared to other offerings, its a damn steal especially with how Sprint is so flexible with how much data you use.
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breach of contract isn't theft. Its a civil matter, and basically you can do what you want with your phone (including root it)... Sprint does not have to provide you with service though.
In reality, the most Sprint is entitled to do is terminate you from their service..

Hack evo for free hotspot

Ok so I just got the evo and I'm I. Love I had a moment b4 this and the the pre and the moment was very disappointing but the evo defined did the trick for Mr any way I'm very new to this whole rooting and hacking so I don't kno to much info or where to go get the info I was wonder if there there was a way I could use the hotspot feature without paying 29.99 so if anyone has any info or can point me in the right direction that would be great thanks in advance
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You would need to root your phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Supersonic/Guides_&_Tutorials
Please read up on it before you actually do it. Read the stickies at the top of each forum.
I did this literally 5 minutes ago. I have all the recent updates, and used unrevoked.
http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
The whole process took less than 5 minutes.
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
Download that .apk, install and boom.
Thanks for the info fmedina2, im new to the evo and everything 2, but since the link is currently not working. If I root my phone is there a possibility my phone could break or not work properly?
Sprint really doesn't bust users for pulling down hotspot quantity data-activity without paying the $30/mo Mobile Hotspot fee ?
I put 2.1 back on my friend's phone. Now he gets to use the sprint hotspot for free. For some reason he doesn't like free tether, but I do.
IFMISM said:
I put 2.1 back on my friend's phone. Now he gets to use the sprint hotspot for free. For some reason he doesn't like free tether, but I do.
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If you root then apply Calkulin's usb tether fix, it will also make the native Hotspot app work. The fix disables authentification for both wired and wireless tethering.
Personally, I think that the way these phones hog data out of the box that it would be hard for sprint accuse you of unauthrized tethering unless you were doing something like using the phone as your primary internrt connection.
I cancelled my comcast as soon as I got my evo. I've used it for XBOX live, webbrowsing during the day and leave it on to torrent over night. Sprint hasn't said anything to me.
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I cancelled my comcast as soon as I got my evo. I've used it for XBOX live, webbrowsing during the day and leave it on to torrent over night. Sprint hasn't said anything to me.
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This. I pushed upwards of 11GB worth of data in m first month with no hassle.
thekingofmean said:
I cancelled my comcast as soon as I got my evo. I've used it for XBOX live, webbrowsing during the day and leave it on to torrent over night. Sprint hasn't said anything to me.
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This. I pushed upwards of 11GB worth of data in m first month with no hassle.
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Please, stop. You people are why we're going to lose unlimited bandwidth.
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Please, stop. You people are why we're going to lose unlimited bandwidth.
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You're absolutely right. I'm rooted, and CAN tether for free, but I pay the $29.99 anyway because it's the right thing to do. If you are using it for a lot of data (your main connection), you should pay for it.
thekingofmean said:
I cancelled my comcast as soon as I got my evo. I've used it for XBOX live, webbrowsing during the day and leave it on to torrent over night. Sprint hasn't said anything to me.
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if you do ghetto things like that, you'll live just that kind of life.
good luck with that...
sobis1dm said:
This. I pushed upwards of 11GB worth of data in m first month with no hassle.
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Get ready for tiered data plans.
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Hahaha you should pay for it? Why because they tell you too? Hey simple man root your phone thru unrevoked(easy as hell) then use pdanet or caulkins method or flash a rom that has it already integrated.
Hey your paying an extra $10 for extra bandwith so use it. Why pay $40 more now to stream on your phone..hey AT&T is 15 a month for dsl a year...so it may be right but it ain't smart..... Also I believe unlimited bandwith is for aircards and not for wireless. There is a thread discussing that. At the end of the day too each his own....
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P.S. I don't abuse or really use tethering but I don't see the problem. I don't use 90% of the internet based stuff on my phone but I pay the $10 and don't complain...
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Please, stop. You people are why we're going to lose unlimited bandwidth[/url].
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david279 said:
Get ready for tiered data plans.
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The reason I came to Sprint is because they allow it, and every rep I've talked to knows this. What good is the ability to push unlimited data (which, please, most people here can burn 11GB in a day, let alone a month) if you're morally restricted to limiting yourself to the competition's tiers anyways? Sprint's angle against the Big Two has been unlimited data for a long time now, and they're not going to switch it. If they do, I can promise you that the reason is NOT some guy using PDANet and watching a lot of streaming football while he's at work.
My 2 cents: our ten dollar a month 4g fee....covers truly unlimited data, at least that's how sprint justifies it. Even though I have used upwards of 9 gigs without ever touching tether. 10 or 15 is not that bad, imo.tiered plans are a scare tactic . Att feels the pain of that already. Hardcore users have started jumping ship now that they realize 2 gigs is nothing the more they use their phones.
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Kcarpenter said:
My 2 cents: our ten dollar a month 4g fee....covers truly unlimited data, at least that's how sprint justifies it. Even though I have used upwards of 9 gigs without ever touching tether. 10 or 15 is not that bad, imo.tiered plans are a scare tactic . Att feels the pain of that already. Hardcore users have started jumping ship now that they realize 2 gigs is nothing the more they use their phones.
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You're right in that 2GB really is nothing nowadays. Sprint offers On Demand television, live sporting events, and devices with screens big enough to actually utilize these things; and when Netflix comes to Android, do they really think users will stay within 2-5GB?
Even without Netflix or tethering, Evo can burn through caps like noone's business on push alone. The phone was built and marketed as a multimedia powerhouse - stream HD, refresh your FriendStream every 15 minutes, push the news, get your email, upload huge photos from your 8MP cam, all within a few swipes.
It makes sense for Sprint to cap the non-premium data users, and just use that as an incentive to make $10/mo from that many more customers. But seriously, companies really should start focusing on making the network's capacities better - not limiting the consumer.
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I second that!!
We aren't losing unlimited bandwidth. We pay extra for not having 4G in our areas aka a 'richer data experience'.
This is that richer data experience. Tether it up.

Something I Think Everyone Should Read

This is something that concerns everyone who owns and roots and Android phone. This may be rumor or speculation, but P3Droid is very reputable, and it does make some sense. Worth the read at least.
h t t p://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/android-news-rumors/6888-some-food-thought-bootloaders-rooting-manufacturers-carriers.html
*Edit* DUH MOMENT. Should have posted in Android General instead of D2 forums..... my bad
Well we knew this was going to happen. I don't care what people say but rooting devices are primary done for tethering. If you don't tether then good for you, have a cookie.
If you do tether and don't pay for that service then you really should consider just forking over the money now or face and etf. Till the day that tethering is consider free we are required by our contracts or carrier to pay for services that are not offered for free.
As for the monitoring of rooted devices I think that is wrong but the carriers have the right to refuse you service if your device is modified for security of there network. I would be ok with that as long as it was clearly explained before signing any contract or signing up for services without contracts.
This probably means that the days of our thriving community could be numbered.
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Well we knew this was going to happen. I don't care what people say but rooting devices are primary done for tethering. If you don't tether then good for you, have a cookie.
If you do tether and don't pay for that service then you really should consider just forking over the money now or face and etf. Till the day that tethering is consider free we are required by our contracts or carrier to pay for services that are not offered for free.
As for the monitoring of rooted devices I think that is wrong but the carriers have the right to refuse you service if your device is modified for security of there network. I would be ok with that as long as it was clearly explained before signing any contract or signing up for services without contracts.
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I don't believe the primary reason for rooting is tethering, im pretty sure the primary reason that people root is to be able to fully customize their phones, I know that's why I did it. As for tethering, I don't really do it, but im not going to say I haven't ive done it those times that I needed internet on other devices and don't have wife, which is especially rare.
Tethering should be covered by the unlimited plan, the fact that I have to pay for it separately when I have unlimited bandwidth, having to pay for it separately is greedy.
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I don't believe the primary reason for rooting is tethering, im pretty sure the primary reason that people root is to be able to fully customize their phones, I know that's why I did it. As for tethering, I don't really do it, but im not going to say I haven't ive done it those times that I needed internet on other devices and don't have wife, which is especially rare.
Tethering should be covered by the unlimited plan, the fact that I have to pay for it separately when I have unlimited bandwidth, having to pay for it separately is greedy.
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I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for tethering. But thats just it, A LITTLE. They want to charge $20-$30 for it. I could see like an extra $5-$10 a month.
Either way, I had decided to leave Verizon before all of this (not to say other carriers won't follow suit) so I don't care if they are tracking me or not.
I highly doubt they would, but if they DID terminate my contract, then awesome! That would just mean I wouldn't have to pay an early termination free and get to sprint faster.
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I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for tethering. But thats just it, A LITTLE. They want to charge $20-$30 for it. I could see like an extra $5-$10 a month.
Either way, I had decided to leave Verizon before all of this (not to say other carriers won't follow suit) so I don't care if they are tracking me or not.
I highly doubt they would, but if they DID terminate my contract, then awesome! That would just mean I wouldn't have to pay an early termination free and get to sprint faster.
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Well actually, if you read on in the thread you posted, it says how if the carriers catch you in violation of your contract by rooting or using a different firmware, then they will end your contract AND make you pay an etf
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rusty815 said:
Well actually, if you read on in the thread you posted, it says how if the carriers catch you in violation of your contract by rooting or using a different firmware, then they will end your contract AND make you pay an etf
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Well, either way, they haven't ended anyones contract for rootings that anyone knows of. I'll ride out the rest of my contract, go to Sprint, and wait and see how this whole thing unfolds before I decide to root my next phone.
I'll stick with Android, because it is still the best OS IMO, no matter how much they lock it down.
I certainly didn't root my D2 to tether. The reasons I originally rooted were so I could use Titanium and freeze the bloatware apps Verizon so thoughtlessly stuck on my phone with no way to remove them and so I could install Root Explorer and get rid of the camera shutter sound . I also enjoy taking screencaps with Shoot Me.
I don't think any of those things are detrimental to VZW's network.
i only root to tether honestly :/
Ive never used tethering. I really dont know why I rooted. Maybe the thrill of maybe bricking. Kinda
Weird
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I'll admit, I have used tethering. I usually only used it when I was at work during break for my laptop. I pay for cable and internet from a ISP, so I don't use tethering very often. I have stopped using it all together now.
And I just thought about this. Why have the carriers not tried to get PDAnet taken off the market since it is basically a nonroot required tether method that you don't pay for...
I was tethering this morning on my rooted D2 running the Gingerbread leak (I actually was using a new Wireless Tether beta since the built-in hotspot app wasn't working too well). Regardless, the phone seemed to know that I was tethering, even though I wasn't using the built-in hotspot (it showed notifications that I was tethering).
After a couple of minutes, I got a message on my PC web browser telling me that I needed a tethering plan to tether. It asked whether I consented to adding a tethering plan ($20/month for 2GB).
So it appears that Verizon does now know who is tethering (potentially as of Gingerbread), and that they will be forcing us to upgrade to tethering plans if we plan to tether.
Considering that AT&T is doing this as well with the iPhone, this was sort of inevitable (since data seems to be going towards by-the-GB pricing anyways).
The message actually popped up right in your browser? That's downright creepy.
Yeah. It popped up on my browser...
Just tried out my tether w/o a notebook and it came up tether or hotpot. Im a little ticked off but oh well
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Can someone post a screencap of the message?
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I would like to see this too. I don't doubt you that you got the message, just wanna see what it looks like
I've had two rooted phones: an Incredible that slipped through my fingers and and took a tumble into total screen disintegration, and my D2. Both were rooted for the soul purpose of getting rid of Verizon's bloat. I don't give a rat's ass about what city people are calling from, and if I did, I'D ASK THEM!! And coming from Sense, I found MotoBloat to be comparatively clunky and useless so I Fissioned up when that came out. It's sad that a skin that's suppose to make your phone easier to use I find just gets in my way. I used wireless tether only once: to finish my taxes when Comcast crapped out.
P3Droid tweeted that you SHOULD NOT use ANY tethering app. He believes that Verizon is going to be doing something about it this week.
Also, he suggests that if you have the stock Hotspot app hack, then you should SBF back to 2.2 ASAP!
Just thought I would pass this information along. Take it or leave it.
P3Droid also said that the regular D2 wasn't going to get Gingerbread...

Tmo figured me out!

In the last few days Tmo has been redirecting me to buy that stupid hotspot service when i try to hot spot my work computer. I tried Clockworkmod's tether app, and got the same ****. Im in the process of downloading CM9's nightly, im hoping when i flash ill be back to getting what i pay for.
But if it doesnt, and since its a redirect i doubt flashing a rom will help, does anyone know how to get around it?
I dont understand why yu want to get it free. You are allowing your phone to give internet access to multiple devices thereby increasing bandwidth usage compared to how much youd overall use by accessing data services on your phone alone (hence throttling)Explain how it should be free?.
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You can get the five gigs plus tether for thirty bucks. Quit being cheap. Compared to other carriers we have it good.
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Having to work for tmobile is awesome . Having a dealer line and unlimited data access is amazing. I'm just happy
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I dont understand why yu want to get it free. You are allowing your phone to give internet access to multiple devices thereby increasing bandwidth usage compared to how much youd overall use by accessing data services on your phone alone (hence throttling)Explain how it should be free?.
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Im already paying for data plan permonth. I shouldnt have to pay for it twice. Having to pay for tethering is a straight up money grab, i dont care how cool Tmo is (and they are a great company), i dont think i should have to pay twice for the data im already using and paying for.
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Im already paying for data plan permonth. I shouldnt have to pay for it twice. Having to pay for tethering is a straight up money grab, i dont care how cool Tmo is (and they are a great company), i dont think i should have to pay twice for the data im already using and paying for.
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So if you have 2 phones on your account you should only have to pay for data on one if them but get it on both? By your logic that would be the same thing...
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Data is data. Who cares, other than providers, where it's going?
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xsteven77x said:
You can get the five gigs plus tether for thirty bucks. Quit being cheap. Compared to other carriers we have it good.
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I tether fine with my 5gig data plan without getting any hotpost messages
On the 5GB and 10GB plans, you can get tethering for free. One of the things I love about Tmo.
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So if you have 2 phones on your account you should only have to pay for data on one if them but get it on both? By your logic that would be the same thing...
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If he has unlimited data yes. If a customer has a 2gb hspa+ and unlimited edge after, who cares whether it's his phone or comp using the data? Charging for tethering is just charging for the service not the data. And considering a simple free app can do that service why should he pay extra?
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Data is data. Ones and zeros are ones and zeros. Im paying for ones and zeros. Not to mention i rarely use tethering at all, i just want it handy for that "every once in a while." $15 a month doesnt constitute that. Nor does it constitute using one of them "shared" bull **** that is $15 a month just to enable my phone to do it and use up the same data pool. Its a money grab and i refuse to pay for it.
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Data is data. Who cares, other than providers, where it's going?
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This is right. You are already paying for your 2GBs, you should be able to use it as you want. Because at the end of the day, your going to get throttled once you hit your limit.
so even if your using just your phone, or a hotspot the data you use with the devices don't change.
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If I'm not browsing on my laptop then I'm just going to pick up my phone and do it that way. How does that allow me to use an unfair amount? Data limits are still in place on my "unlimited" line.
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In the last few days Tmo has been redirecting me to buy that stupid hotspot service when i try to hot spot my work computer. I tried Clockworkmod's tether app, and got the same ****. Im in the process of downloading CM9's nightly, im hoping when i flash ill be back to getting what i pay for.
But if it doesnt, and since its a redirect i doubt flashing a rom will help, does anyone know how to get around it?
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T-Mobile didn't "figure you out" - most tethering is easily detectable. It's a matter of "does T-Mobile care enough to do anything about it?" ... Until recently, that answer was no.
The information to get around T-Mobile's tethering detection is available in this forum (read: search for it). I'll give you a hint: the user agent gives you away.
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I dont understand why yu want to get it free. You are allowing your phone to give internet access to multiple devices thereby increasing bandwidth usage compared to how much youd overall use by accessing data services on your phone alone (hence throttling)Explain how it should be free?.
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Do you own Tmobile stock?! What difference does it make? You know some of us are irritated that we are paying for unlimited data with at&t and we aren't able to tether our laptops every once in awhile. I have no need for tethering 95% of the time. But when I'm on the road and I need to check something on a flash website it is nice to be able to use my laptop. I shouldn't have to lose unlimited data AND have my data bill go up 66% just because I need to tether 15 times a year. You know if they said hey if you are going to be traveling pay us $5 and we will let you tether for a month I would say fine.
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Do you own Tmobile stock?! What difference does it make? You know some of us are irritated that we are paying for unlimited data with at&t and we aren't able to tether our laptops every once in awhile. I have no need for tethering 95% of the time. But when I'm on the road and I need to check something on a flash website it is nice to be able to use my laptop. I shouldn't have to lose unlimited data AND have my data bill go up 66% just because I need to tether 15 times a year. You know if they said hey if you are going to be traveling pay us $5 and we will let you tether for a month I would say fine.
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I used to get the nasty emails from Ma Bell until I started using USB exclusively and Opera browser (uses a proxy). Ever since then, I've never gotten another one.
Seriously just pay for it with tmo.. Its like the people that pirate apk's... its a couple bucks for those and its like, why waste the time?
You "righteous" dudes are missing the point. I totally understand what the OP is saying. If I'm already paying for a certain amount of data, who gives a damn HOW it is used. In the end I'm STILL using the amount of data I paid for. Nothing more, nothing less. Charging for that is just like double billing in my opinion. These providers will do ANYTHING to milk more money out of the consumer.
Tmob is a business, not a non profit orginization. it's not like charging for the service is done just to "rob" consumers, if it wasn't for everyone expecting everything for free I think technological advancements would be in a completely different place. We only hinder ourselves with our sense of entitlement. I get the point of only tethering so often, but again, few ruin it for the many and use their phone as a modem for Netflix. Too bad it's in our nature to exploit everything. Just sayin
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Tmob is a business, not a non profit orginization. it's not like charging for the service is done just to "rob" consumers, if it wasn't for everyone expecting everything for free I think technological advancements would be in a completely different place. We only hinder ourselves with our sense of entitlement. I get the point of only tethering so often, but again, few ruin it for the many and use their phone as a modem for Netflix. Too bad it's in our nature to exploit everything. Just sayin
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I do not believe issues such as this to be an unwarranted sense of entitlement. I have been an "unlimited" data user at At&T since 2005 - back when tethering was included in data. It was so little an issue back then I once called AT&T to ask for help setting up my Blackberry 7100.
For me to continue using my phone to tether win I switched to an iPhone, they tried to upsell me to a tethering plan, and the same when I briefly used a focus. I told them then, and I will tell them now, that as long as the plan that we BOTH agreed to regarding my ToS say that tethering is indeed included in my data plan - its not an entitlement, it is a right protected by the contract I had to sign while buying my beloved 8125.
The OP's individual situation may be different than this - but in all reality, if there is no abuse of the data caps on the users end - charging extra for tethering is in really bad taste from any of the carriers. It is NOT a service that they provide - it's a well established feature withing operating systems of the phones they sell. If that is unacceptable to them, then stop selling smartphones and go back to series Nokia 6125's. Then offer the 3g/4g hotspots as their own service so there is no longer a redundancy between smartphones and hotspots. Charging for both is just plain stupid.
Especially if the data plan I pay for has more than covered the data I use. I tether my laptop and tablet once or twice a week, and have not come close to the 5GB "softcap". If I'm not going over my limit, Who the heck are you to tell me I'm abusing the network? Leave me alone and go bother the jerk who's torrenting 720p movies on Friday night.

Been tethering for 6 years, finally got a notice from AT&T

I've been tethering for ~6 years now and have never gotten a notice from AT&T. I rarely use it (once every 2 months?) when in an emergency. I used a few tethering Apps back on the iPhone, and then I've always used CyanogenMod's built in tethering since switching over to Android without issue. I finally got a notice that says:
Like you, some of our customers use their smartphones as a broadband connection for other devices, like laptops, netbooks or other smartphones - a practice called mobile hotspot creation, or otherwise known as tethering....
To keep your current plan you'll need to stop using mobile hotspot/tethering by the end of the month. Please remove any tethering apps and make sure anyone who uses your device understands your current plan doesn't include mobile hotspot creation.
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Anyone have any tips on this? I use it very infrequently which is why I do not want to pony up for the $50 plan, but I rely on it in case of emergency.
hedpe said:
I've been tethering for ~6 years now and have never gotten a notice from AT&T. I rarely use it (once every 2 months?) when in an emergency. I used a few tethering Apps back on the iPhone, and then I've always used CyanogenMod's built in tethering since switching over to Android without issue. I finally got a notice that says:
Anyone have any tips on this? I use it very infrequently which is why I do not want to pony up for the $50 plan, but I rely on it in case of emergency.
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You didn't say,but are you on an unlimited plan? If so, and you want to stay unlimited, I suggest you stop tethering all together. AT&T is really looking hard for ways to get everyone off unlimited plans and ANY little excuse will do. Generally, small amounts of tethering just get looked over, so there is a good chance that you might have used more data tethering than you thought. That, or like I said, they aren't letting anything slip by any more. I am guessing you are "unlimited" because I doubt they would send a warning to any one on a paid plan (2 GIG, 3 GIG, etc...) per month, because every GIG over the plan limit includes an extra charge of it's own. So I don't think they really care how you use it as long as you are paying for it. The new "share" plans that AT&T offers includes tethering which further goes to show that they don't care about tethering as long as you pay for the data that is being used. So, you might want to consider switching to one of those plans. Basically, your options are to switch plans, or stop tethering because of you don't stop AT&T will switch the plan for you.
I got the same notice, but it was on a month when I wasn't tethering. I would tether other tablets and a few coworkers phones when they needed a big file.
What triggered the warning? I was watching Amazon prime streaming on my phone. Because I was going to the desktop website and streaming 4gb of movies, they assumed I was tethering.
That was 6 months and many tethers ago. And yes, I'm on the unlimited plan.
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I got the same notice, but it was on a month when I wasn't tethering. I would tether other tablets and a few coworkers phones when they needed a big file.
What triggered the warning? I was watching Amazon prime streaming on my phone. Because I was going to the desktop website and streaming 4gb of movies, they assumed I was tethering.
That was 6 months and many tethers ago. And yes, I'm on the unlimited plan.
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I have a feeling that AT&T has been slowly switching people off of the unlimited plan for a while now just to get the pool of people still on unlimited to a low number. Some, they switched on technicalities, and some switched on their own (due to throttling and things like that). They want to get the number of people still holding on to a low enough number so when they "discontinue" unlimited once and for all there will be a manageable ripple effect from it. I see that time coming very soon...one way or the other. I also think they are relying heavily on the "tethering' abuse situation in a more frequent way, even if it isn't true.
The best thing is I played dumb with the rep and asked how I could be tethering when the option tells me I don't have a tethering plan.
She proceeded to tell me all the programs I could download (by name) that I could use to get around that setting. She did tell me they just receive a report from another group and don't get the reason why tethering was detected. It was a real shame because I thought I was going to sweet talk the detection method out of her.
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