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AT&T Enables Wireless Mobile Hotspot for iOS 4.3 Users

CompanionCube said:
Uhhhh who the hell at MacRumors posted this? This is not news, and it's been working since the first beta of 4.3.
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Here is what would be news! Two questions!

But does it work for those of us with a grandfathered unlimited data plan?

Also, currently it looks like you lose your unlimited data plan if you sign up for tethering. So does it work without signing up for the tethering plan?

Marcus
 
When I see that personal hotspot feature I always think iOS is tantalising close to a pull down notification system.
 
wilhoitm said:
Here is what would be news! Two questions!

But does it work for those of us with a grandfathered unlimited data plan?

Also, currently it looks like you lose your unlimited data plan if you sign up for tethering. So does it work without signing up for the tethering plan?

Marcus
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That's my question, too. I'm grandfathered into the unlimited plan, and don't want to make a change for fear of losing the unlimited data feature. How will this impact us? :confused:
 
arn said:
Sorry for the confusion. It was non-obvious, as most people don't have ios 4.3 and a smaller subset of those has tethering.
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Thanks for posting this. I'm not sure why so many folks are boasting about they've done this for weeks - other than showing off they have the beta. This was news to me and a very exciting step forward for AT&T. I can't wait to sign up. I'm not a developer like all these other people.
 
Nothing special about 4.3 other than this. Wonder why everyone is so anxious to get it.
 
wow sick what some of u guys need, i never made it over 300 mb a months in the last 3 years lol (including tethering)
 
wilhoitm said:
Here is what would be news! Two questions!

But does it work for those of us with a grandfathered unlimited data plan?

Also, currently it looks like you lose your unlimited data plan if you sign up for tethering. So does it work without signing up for the tethering plan?

Marcus
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bobbleheadbob said:
That's my question, too. I'm grandfathered into the unlimited plan, and don't want to make a change for fear of losing the unlimited data feature. How will this impact us? :confused:
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wolfpackfan said:
+1
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AT&T doesn't allow tethering on the unlimited plan. So if you sign up for tethering you would have to switch to a capped plan. There is no chance they would offer Personal Hotspot on unlimited plans when they don't even offer a tethering option.
 
bobbleheadbob said:
That's my question, too. I'm grandfathered into the unlimited plan, and don't want to make a change for fear of losing the unlimited data feature. How will this impact us? :confused:
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+2 I still be grandfathered plan on my iPhone. I won't change other plans. I now use JB MyWi hotspot. No monthly charge.
 
bretm said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5)



25 days into my cycle and I'm at 6.7 gigs. How about everyone else?
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20 days into my cycle and I'm at 234mb. Wi-Fi is nice.
 
bobbleheadbob said:
That's my question, too. I'm grandfathered into the unlimited plan, and don't want to make a change for fear of losing the unlimited data feature. How will this impact us? :confused:
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It will not be supported with the unlimited data plan according to customer service and tech support at ATT when I called to ask.
 
Android (Froyo) has had built-in wireless 'hotspot' tethering for a year now. Works like a charm.

Users of wireless 'hotspot' tethering over their smartphones ought to be aware, though, that although you can connect your laptop or desktop over WiFi via your iPhone 4 to the internet now, the connection from the phone to the internet is over 3G/GPRS/CDMA. In other words: it will eat into your data plan!

Now don't turn around and tell me you don't care because you have an 'unlimited data plan', because 'unlimited data plans' are not unlimited at all! They all apply a socalled 'fair use policy'. Which means there IS a cap! And you will be notified when you exceed it, and you will be cut off (or charged, dearly, for the excess) if your data use persists at that level!

I got a 'stern' warning after only 10 hours (in December) of streaming videos over wireless 'hotspot' tethering!
So I don't stream video over a 'portable wireless WiFi hotspot' (my phone) to my MBP anymore!
 
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Foxer said:
More evidence that competition in market benefits everyone.

It would be nice if this would be available without having to have a tethering contract, but I doubt that will happen.
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I hope Apple does make a iPhone 'nano' and sells it to any comers. That would be real competition. I'd love to be able to switch carriers at will.
 
Strange

What I find strange about my phone 4.3 phone as a hotspot, you can't change the name... it's creates a hotspot called iPhone.... you can't change it. So what happens if there are 2 people with it turned on in the same room?
 
I'd consider hotspot if AT&T gave it to me as incentive to downgrade from my legacy 'unlimited'.
While I don't come close to 2G per month, it's going to take something above and beyond from AT&T to get me to give it up.
 
GQB said:
I'd consider hotspot if AT&T gave it to me as incentive to downgrade from my legacy 'unlimited'.
While I don't come close to 2G per month, it's going to take something above and beyond from AT&T to get me to give it up.
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Agreed. Especially because we use more and more data every year.
 
Now that we have an official way to tether and an official way to have a hotspot, there are fewer reasons to jailbreak.

The biggest remaining reason for me to jailbreak is the lack of anything like iBlacklist in the official App Store.
 
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