Using my Nexus 4 as a wifi hotspot on T-Mobile prepaid.

[SuperDave70]

Just curious if T-Mobile can tell when I use my phone as a wifi hotspot on their prepaid plans. I do it a couple times a week at work. I'm not streaming anything, just basic web surfing, so I'm not chewing through a ton of data. Is there any way for them to tell other than the data usage?

 

[mb41186]

I've done this also, with my old phone I wasn't able too but with this one it doesn't give me that message saying that I don't pay for the service, I think its a glitch or something but either way if you can get away with it then just use it hah

 

[OhSeven]

They have weak screening it for it based on the user agent string. If you mask it with a mobile device user agent string, you'll get the mobile site on your desktop, and desktop strings will get blocked. Last I tried, Linux Mint user agent strings worked for desktop sites. There are probably other Linux based strings that worked, there's a site that has a database full of them and you need an extension to let you change it