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In France, the main mobile operator Orange, offers you tethering only as an option to be additionally paid on top of your data plan. They basically monitor the
by kaplun 9y ago
In France, the main mobile operator Orange, offers you tethering only as an option to be additionally paid on top of your data plan. They basically monitor the connection to check if your mobile is forwarding packages and do mitm in order to display advertisement about the additional paid option.
- TheCowboy 9y agoAT&T USA also charges extra for tethering on top of a data plan. Apple's iPhone will even block you from tethering if you don't pay extra to AT&T.
- shmerl 9y agoThat already violates net neutrality.
- ac29 9y agoNet neutrality rules never applied to wireless connections.
- shmerl 9y agoThe principle applies to all traffic. Current rules are far from perfect on their own and have loopholes already. Instead of repealing them, they should be extended, including outright banning anti-competitive data caps which is a pure rip off.
- rayiner 9y agoYes they do.
- Feniks 9y agoWere I live packet inspection is illegal, regardless if its wired or mobile.
- celeritascelery 9y agoSame with Verizon
- AndrewGaspar 9y agoI'm positive I don't pay an additional charge for tethering on Verizon.
- TheCowboy 9y agoYou might not given that provider plans and bundles do change over time. Sometimes there are still restrictions and drawbacks (e.g. throttling) since providers are opaque about their services. There could be new plans that include tethering but cost more or have bandwidth caps.
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- freeone3000 9y agoThey enforce this at the ROM level but not the SIM level, so any user-flashed ROM gets around this incompetent "restriction".
- Neracked 9y agoThis seems odd. I am French and switch operators every year (because they have those stupid offers with significantly cheaper subscription that only last 12 months and it only takes a couple of minutes to subscribe to a new one) and I have used tethering frequently with Free, Numericable, Bouygues and SFR without getting any warning or noticing any oddity in the content served. Also, Orange has a bit more inertia than the others (it used to be the French public phone company France Telecom), but their support page says that tethering is part of the regular mobile subscriptions. [1] https://boutique.orange.fr/mobile/fonction-modem https://boutique.orange.fr/mobile/fonction-modem
- kaplun 9y agoYup, I was mentioning explicitly Orange, because a friend of mine got the nasty surprise after trying to enable tethering. And this option was not in his normal subscription, although it was a subscription with quite a nice Data plan. And this violates Net Neutrality because Orange is deciding what you can do or not with your paid bandwidth.