mobile hotspot/tethering
Recently my sister had her broadband fail and it took some banging together of the heads of her ISP and telecoms providers before they agreed a fix. Both had fairly sloping shoulders and, as luck would have it, my sister had a bad cold and completely lost her voice at the same time so was unable to complain or answer the phone......
While all of this was going on she was reduced to communicating with the world in general to the times when her boyfriend had his smart phone there and she could use her email on it. She said it was hard work doing everything on the phone screen made worse by her cold.
When I suggested that his phone could be used to provide a personal hotspot he said it was "forbidden" in the small print of his contract. He was right, it is forbidden by the smallprint in his contract.
I don't know what the problem is, if he doesn't (can't?) exceed the data amount in his tariff, why does it matter to the network operator whether he eats his data in his phone or passes it through to a netbook computer?
Can the phone network tell whether the phone or the computer is the end user of the data?
It seems a bit unfair to sell him loads of data and then to restrict his usage in this way.
Rans6.....