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The issue is the lack of cheap phone plans that allow tethering. And even the more expensive ones that do often have low data caps.
by jrmg 3y ago
The issue is the lack of cheap phone plans that allow tethering. And even the more expensive ones that do often have low data caps.
- f1refly 3y agoWhy would a provider forbid tethering? And besides the why, how would they even know you're doing that? If I turn on my phones hotspot, doesn't that look exactly like my phone is doing something™ requiring a high bandwidth?
- eloisant 3y agoBecause they want to charge you for the expensive "tethering" option. I know, that's fucked up but the US are not very good at forcing consumer-friendliness on their companies. On the "how they detect it", unless you're using a VPN they can look at the traffic and easy distinguish "computer traffic" from regular "phone traffic".
- inemesitaffia 3y agoTTL, traffic use amounts. Domains not available to mobile apps. your phone tells the network and sometimes implements the restrictions itself
- __jonas 3y agoVery annoyingly, the iPhone also has a way for the carrier to somehow disable the mobile hotspot feature of the phone for their sim. On the mobile hotspot settings page it will just show a message with a link to the carriers website instead of the toggle to enable it, I find it really annoying since as you said I don't understand how there would be a difference in what the usage would look like to the carrier and it feels like Apple is imposing a restriction just for the benefit of the carrier that makes the phone less usable.
- sneak 3y agoThis is Apple's fault. Android phones do not have this problem.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoAndroid does
- SkyPuncher 3y agoAndroid phones have the exact same issue. For years I had to use an ADB work around to get tethering.
- herbst 3y agoNot sure if android has that but I never heard of anything like that here in Europe.