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None of their current plans appear to offer tethering. Are you on a grandfather-ed plan?

• amirmc 14y ago
  "Tethering is permitted on £10 goodybag and will work on all smartphones with an inbuilt tethering feature, except for the iPhone." [1]. Not sure what the deal is with iPhone (I'm on their £12 option). All the other plans expressly say "Tethering is not permitted ..." [1] http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/10pound-goodybag http://giffgaff.com/goodybags/10pound-goodybag
  • UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
    I believe they cannot allow tethering with the iPhone since the iPhone its self doesn't allow tethering unless Apple unlocks it. So they might need to pay Apple some £££ to get the ability to simply unlock tethering for GiffGaff's users. I suspect that an jail-broken iPhone could tether on GiffGaff just fine.
    • bruceboughton 14y ago
      Why would Apple want to restrict tethering? It is the carriers that want to restrict it in order to continue charging differently for different bits on the wire. Apple obviously provide the infrastructure for enabling/disabling tethering but I cannot see how it is in their interest to discourage it, except to keep the carriers happy.
    • PJones 14y ago
      It's the carrier that disables tethering based on the network profile. An unlocked iPhone can tether just fine out of the box, until you put a SIM card in that doesn't allow it.
  • gambiting 14y ago
    You can tether even with their 12 pound unlimited package. I had to do it a few times, it was only for half an hour or so,but nothing happened. People on their forums are saying,that it's basically a rule of thumb - if it's occasional and you are not downloading hundreds of MB of data, it's going to be fine. But start using your phone to torrent stuff,and they will probably limit your speed or cut you off.