Carrier Feature Question

[PSXBatou]

I have the Unlimited Smart Phone HSPA+ thing that rolled over from my iPhone 4. I noticed in my menus tethering is greyed out, just as it was on my iPhone 4 since AT&T had to authorize the phone for it and then you could select it. However I am noticing that I can open, activate, and what seems like use the WiFi hotspot on my phone. None of the check boxes are greyed out like with tethering.

Would I be charge "pay per use" data if I were to use this and actually let a device pull off the hotspot, or for some odd reason is it activated with my 4G unlimited plan?

It just seems very not AT&T, since they tend to lock down everything that your account does not have access to like they do with the greyed out tethering button.

 

[blazeplacid]

you have to call to activate teethering

 

[PSXBatou]

you have to call to activate teethering

And then I'd lose unlimited, so nope. I just find it odd that the wifi hotspot thing had nothing greyed out and let me turn it on. I didn't try to connect to it though, for fear of pay per use data charges.

 

[kstruck]

I find it sucks that in order to activate tethering, you lose your unlimited plan. I dont have a need to tether, but it sucks anyway.