I still have yet to see a post of someone getting "forced" into the tethering plan. It's been months and people have gotten multiple notices but still don't get switched over. I think AT&T is still bluffing on this one.
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Questions for those that received TETHERING notice from AT&T
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I still have yet to see a post of someone getting "forced" into the tethering plan. It's been months and people have gotten multiple notices but still don't get switched over. I think AT&T is still bluffing on this one.
I, too, got a notice and called them confused, at which point they haven't done anything since.
Um, they switched me. They forced me over after multiple messages and 2 or 3 billing cycles of nothing.
Average monthly usage: 3-4GB (even with the tethering)
Did you ever call them to say don't do this, or did they just do it without contact or approval from you?
A little bird, who is often spot on in these matters, told me corporate accounts are treated differently in regards to this matter. Could explain why a lot of folks I know that have been tethering on JB'd phones with unlimited plans aren't getting any notices.
I have been tethering for probably half a year using MyWi and have yet to receive and notices. I also barely use any data though, don't think I've ever exceeded 2 gigs.
Corporate accounts provide no protection
I want to dispel the myth of corporate accounts providing you protection against AT&T contacting you about tethering. Received my second notice today. I have a corporate account through a Fortune 500 company and have 5 lines with lots of features added in. My monthly bill is $300+.
My monthly usage is approximately 3-4 GB a month on my iPhone (I watch a lot of CNN and ESPN while at work). So back to my point, I have discontinued tethering because they can detect when you use it and will go after you even with a high dollar corporate account.
I want to dispel the myth of corporate accounts providing you protection against AT&T contacting you about tethering. Received my second notice today. I have a corporate account through a Fortune 500 company and have 5 lines with lots of features added in. My monthly bill is $300+.
My monthly usage is approximately 3-4 GB a month on my iPhone (I watch a lot of CNN and ESPN while at work). So back to my point, I have discontinued tethering because they can detect when you use it and will go after you even with a high dollar corporate account.
Just got a notice & called & bitched them out, I kept asking HOW they know you tether besides spike in usage & she just say "theres also other ways we know" but wouldnt explain how, I told her nothing better change on my plan.
She also started telling me how a person "tethered" listening to pandora radio through their car speakers & i laid into her for that. THAT ISNT TETHERING LADY the guy has it hooked up through FM transmitter, audio cable, or usb.
They have no clue over there at AT&T
that is what I was wondering, how ELSE do they know you are for sure tethering?
She also started telling me how a person "tethered" listening to pandora radio through their car speakers & i laid into her for that. THAT ISNT TETHERING LADY the guy has it hooked up through FM transmitter, audio cable, or usb.
They have no clue over there at AT&T
that is what I was wondering, how ELSE do they know you are for sure tethering?
Why do some folks find it so difficult to understand that they can tell what type of device is sending the data from the data packets sent. They can tell if you are tethering with an IPAD or a Mac or a PC because the device identifies itself in the data string. You can argue with the person at the end of phone all you want but believe me they know and its not based on volume of data.
Have you never though of how the Web site you access know to format the data for a phone or a regular PC browser when it returns its response.
In fact with an iphone they don't even need to analyse the data packets see attached article.
http://mygadgetnews.com/tech/how-does-att-detect-unofficial-tethering-on-iphone
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MyWi user and I just received the notification in the mail as well as an email from AT&T. I've never exceeded 3GB in any month. I switched over to the 4GB Tethering plan. Sucks balls.
It makes me laugh... even more when people say they play dumb to the at&t rep. They obviously know when they catch someone tethering. To try to tell them you don't even know what tethering is or some other lame ******** is just stupid. As if they've never heard it all before.
What a shame to People in America on AT&T$$$
Here in the UK THREE GIVE US UNLIMITED INTERNET USAGE-ALL YOU CAN EAT DATA- no cap.
£35/month-
You get 2000 anytime anynetwork minutes
5000 three to three minutes
5000 text
And ALL YOU CAN EAT DATA.
Some peoPle HAVD been donwlOading over 80Gb per night downloading films all night lOng etc
You people in America arE getting bumped you need network THREE.
Best,fastest,most reliable network on the IPHHone 4 and most popular in the UK
Here in the UK THREE GIVE US UNLIMITED INTERNET USAGE-ALL YOU CAN EAT DATA- no cap.
£35/month-
You get 2000 anytime anynetwork minutes
5000 three to three minutes
5000 text
And ALL YOU CAN EAT DATA.
Some peoPle HAVD been donwlOading over 80Gb per night downloading films all night lOng etc
You people in America arE getting bumped you need network THREE.
Best,fastest,most reliable network on the IPHHone 4 and most popular in the UK
Can't argue with the above. Just interesting that nobody on our plan has had an issue. Our plan is a very old grandfathered plan with both domestic and international unlimited data.
I'd be able to live with a 4G tether plan if they offered a version with international usage included...if I tethered that is...
usage
I received the don't do it email and just received the txt msg.
I do tether and I do use a lot of data but mines all work related. I live where there is no internet other then cellphone it sucks. Normal usage a month is around 40-50gigs I have been tethering since the first Iphone and no its not limited to just iphones. I am using a HTC inspire. I just play dumb every time i have to call them and say my kids might have done something. or lots of pandora and so on what ever apps I can think of that use lots of data. They still cant tell me yes we know you tether but they dont like me, I have tried to pay extra for my usage but they want me to drop my unl. plan to 4gb So sorry that wont happen. If they force it ill call BBB and FCC and then they will break contract and ill go to Sprint or Tmobile is trully unlimited and they dont care about tether after 10gb they slow u down a bit but still faster then att.
I received the don't do it email and just received the txt msg.
I do tether and I do use a lot of data but mines all work related. I live where there is no internet other then cellphone it sucks. Normal usage a month is around 40-50gigs I have been tethering since the first Iphone and no its not limited to just iphones. I am using a HTC inspire. I just play dumb every time i have to call them and say my kids might have done something. or lots of pandora and so on what ever apps I can think of that use lots of data. They still cant tell me yes we know you tether but they dont like me, I have tried to pay extra for my usage but they want me to drop my unl. plan to 4gb So sorry that wont happen. If they force it ill call BBB and FCC and then they will break contract and ill go to Sprint or Tmobile is trully unlimited and they dont care about tether after 10gb they slow u down a bit but still faster then att.
It only seem like it is because to us users, there's a big unknown to it.
If they have something concrete to hang their hat on, or in other words, can prove when they catch you, it's NOT plausible.
I call BS
I've talked with att twice, denied it and admitted I'm tethering. Been tethering since january and I have used over 700 GBs of data....
Isn't it feasible that someone could turn on the personal hotspot by accident and have someone in the vicinity (coffee shop, etc.) find their hotspot and use it to tether? I know that's a little far-fetched but it certainly isn't impossible that it could happen.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
If some one turned on their phones hotspot, they'd be on the tethering plan.
You have call at&t or go to the account management website, login.... So it's not going happen accidentally
If some one turned on their phones hotspot, they'd be on the tethering plan.
You have call at&t or go to the account management website, login.... So it's not going happen accidentally
You're saying that you can't even turn personal hotspot on unless you're on a tethering plan? That doesn't sound right.
It is right if you try to turn on tethering a message pops up telling you to call the carrier to enable tethering.
Those who are using tethering without tethering turned on by the carrier have to be jailbroken and use a jailbreak app which switches on tethering.