HotSpot feature to be extra?

will be interesting to see what AT&T's stance on ipad tethering is too.... though i presume they would charge too

Ant

 

Nearly every carrier charges extra for this. Not all, but almost all.

 

K. T. Bradford seems to believe it's included in Verizon's data plans, hope he's right.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/03/07/mobile-hotspot-included-in-verizons-ipad-4g-lte-data-plan/

 

It's $50 for 5GB plus tethering, according to their site. Unless I misunderstood it.

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In the past, carriers didn't care to charge for tethering, but since AT&T started to do it for the iPhone, a lot of carriers followed the same practice.
It's been like a huge step backwards for the users.

 

i don't think they will charge since they don't charge for their current lte tablets. the article posted above also mentions that.

 

At one point I had the personal hotspot feature activated on my iPhone 4. At that time I ran my phone and MBP off the hotspot, and I'm assuming that I could run my iPad 2 off it ( I didn't have tyne iPad at that point) as the Verizon hotspot allows tethering to 5 devices. I paid $20/month, with 2GB of data.

However, if I remember correctly, email and web surfing did not come out of the 2 GB...those functions were "free", as in not using any of the 2GB.