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I looked at PDANet and I don't realy understand... My Android phone (galaxy s6) can do all that by default under Settings->Tethering and Hotspot. I do live in
by tokenizerrr 11y ago
I looked at PDANet and I don't realy understand... My Android phone (galaxy s6) can do all that by default under Settings->Tethering and Hotspot.
I do live in Europe though and I've never heard about a "tether plan". Is that some American weirdness maybe?
- metasean 11y agoI wasn't aware that it was an American weirdness, but phone carriers here can, and mostly do, charge us to tether our phone to another device [1]. There is at least one legal exception, where consumers whose data is transmitted via the 700 MHz frequency band can not be charged for tethering [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering#United_States_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering#United_States_of_Ame... ; It looks like the U.K. has similar tethering charges [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_spectrum_auction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_sp...
- tokenizerrr 11y agoThat's really weird. It's just data?
- metasean 11y agoYes, and tethering charges are basically charging consumers twice for accessing that data. I ethically disagree with it, but it is the standard practice here and with one legal exception, it is a legally supported practice.