Well, I finally got the dreaded email too. I use MyWi to tether only very occasionally (a few hundred mbs a week) and usually consume around 1gb of data a month. Last month I went on vacation, tethered like crazy, and managed to peak at just over 2gb of data. I'm wondering if this spike is why I got flagged. Now for the interesting stuff....
As others have done I called and played dumb with the ATT rep. She was nice, and said she would make a note on my account that I was not tethering. Strangely, she would not admit that it could be mistake and insisted that I "don't tether in the future to avoid charges."
But, she made an interesting remark that I haven't seen posted on this thread. She said, "don't worry because even though the email says it will automatically change your plan it won't actually change. Sounds a little fishy to me....and she made that comment even before she asked me if I had ever tethered or knew what it was. She went on to say that if it did ever get changed I could call back and they could resolve the issue and move me back to my unlimited data plan.
I plan on continuing to tether as others have committed to doing. I will report back with any news of course.
As others have done I called and played dumb with the ATT rep. She was nice, and said she would make a note on my account that I was not tethering. Strangely, she would not admit that it could be mistake and insisted that I "don't tether in the future to avoid charges."
But, she made an interesting remark that I haven't seen posted on this thread. She said, "don't worry because even though the email says it will automatically change your plan it won't actually change. Sounds a little fishy to me....and she made that comment even before she asked me if I had ever tethered or knew what it was. She went on to say that if it did ever get changed I could call back and they could resolve the issue and move me back to my unlimited data plan.
I plan on continuing to tether as others have committed to doing. I will report back with any news of course.