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Does Verizon charge for tethering?

Knitewulf

Knitewulf

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I'm using a tethering app on my droid. Wi-fi tether. Usually comes with most custom ROMs.

Well today I used about 35 megabytes of data from my phone because my internet was out. Would there be any reprecussions to this? Also how much can you tether without getting charged if any at all.
Thanks in advance :)
 
Fact: Verizon "can" charge you extra for tethering. The real question is: Will they? I have yet to hear of anyone on this site that has been charged. And there seems to be several people that tether quite a bit. Personally, I wouldn't worry about 35 megs. If you're tether gigs of data ... you might want to be a little more concerned.

If the soon-coming 2.2 Froyo OTA update has the wireless tethering feature built into the OS ... the issue will become moot. Here's to hoping...
 
I tether quite often and dont see any impact on my bill. My usage is usually around 4.5-5 gigs a month but i'd say about 1 of those gigs is tethered usage. I wouldn't take that as gospel though because I could get a crazy bill tomorrow and could do nothing about it if they decided to charge.
 
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messenger13 said:
Fact: Verizon "can" charge you extra for tethering. The real question is: Will they? I have yet to hear of anyone on this site that has been charged. And there seems to be several people that tether quite a bit. Personally, I wouldn't worry about 35 megs. If you're tether gigs of data ... you might want to be a little more concerned.

If the soon-coming 2.2 Froyo OTA update has the wireless tethering feature built into the OS ... the issue will become moot. Here's to hoping...
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According to today's Google/Verizon announcement, making your phone a mobile hotspot will indeed be a feature for Froyo. You'll be able to tether up to 5 additional devices to your phone. There will be a fee, however. You'll have to pay $20 per month and you'll be able to tether up to 2GB of data per month. I guess that means they'll be able to differenciate "regular" phone data and tethering data. Not good news for those of us that do like to tether from time to time.
 
Rodeojones said:
According to today's Google/Verizon announcement, making your phone a mobile hotspot will indeed be a feature for Froyo. You'll be able to tether up to 5 additional devices to your phone. There will be a fee, however. You'll have to pay $20 per month and you'll be able to tether up to 2GB of data per month. I guess that means they'll be able to differenciate "regular" phone data and tethering data. Not good news for those of us that do like to tether from time to time.
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I wonder if tethered data is only measured through FROYO's built-in hotspot application?
 
I'm willing to bet my paycheck that tethering will be easily monitored, rooted or not, with 2.2....Maybe even now with our wireless tether app.

It would be worth their time and money to have some sort of partnership with Google to gather usage reports from the phone. I might just uninstall it now and call it a day. It was fun while it lasted.
 
I just saw the Cnet video of this phone. The wireless hotspot tethering is an app itself, not via settings. I assume that Verizon will probably disable the feature when Froyo comes out and force people to use their app to get the wireless hotspot feature.

If the phone is rooted and you use the wireless tethering app, I doubt Verizon can monitor that. They can assume if you keep going over the limit, but they can't just monitor it.
 
I just cancelled my home internet service and am going to strictly tether via my DInc. I have no idea what my normal usage was via comcast, so we'll see what happens :)
 
I went back to comcast. I do quite a bit of downloading and the DInc just wasn't cutting it speedwise; a half hour for a 100mb file is too long for me. Guess I'm just impatient.



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lgldrgdlr said:
I went back to comcast. I do quite a bit of downloading and the DInc just wasn't cutting it speedwise; a half hour for a 100mb file is too long for me. Guess I'm just impatient.



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I would expect that. I wouldn't use my phone as my main internet connection unless the only other choice was dial-up, like in a rural area.
 
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