I 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

I 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...