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Verizon hotspot pricing for Thunderbolt and such

You'll need a custom kernel to circumvent the tether detection code Verizon made them put in. (Did the Droid X folk ever get around this?)
 
s44 said:
You'll need a custom kernel to circumvent the tether detection code Verizon made them put in. (Did the Droid X folk ever get around this?)
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Kind of. It's iffy and works only sometimes. And someone also more or less proved that Verizon was logging tether usage and could do it quite easily, and so even if you circumvent the lock, they still know you're in there.
 
ImDonly1 said:
Says verizon
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/15/verizon-prolongs-its-free-hotspot-party-on-4g-lte-phones-but-th/


Sorry, but I am still on WM 6.5 and not android :/
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Well what do you know. The verizon rep that I spoke to this morning specifically about the Thunderbolt AND 4g was wrong? He told me it ended on 6/15/11 and the plan would be for $20 a month and for 2gb. Btw, when I click on your link I don't see any official statement from Verizon. Am I missing something? I have come across some other rumors that the $20/2 doesn't apply to 4g phones, so now I have no clue what they are doing.
 
BigDaddyD said:
Well what do you know. The verizon rep that I spoke to this morning specifically about the Thunderbolt AND 4g was wrong? He told me it ended on 6/15/11 and the plan would be for $20 a month and for 2gb. Btw, when I click on your link I don't see any official statement from Verizon. Am I missing something? I have come across some other rumors that the $20/2 doesn't apply to 4g phones, so now I have no clue what they are doing.
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BGR has a link to the press release, free till July 6th.

Also, there's some discussion if Verizon can even charge for tethering on the 700 mhz spectrum.
 
Pliablemoose said:
BGR has a link to the press release, free till July 6th.

Also, there's some discussion if Verizon can even charge for tethering on the 700 mhz spectrum.
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Well, another month is good news for me. I don't use it all that much anyway, but I think that it is fairly silly to charge for it, at least at that price, and cap the usage so much considering what it is designed for. The Thunderbolt was marketed with the wifi for free...at least at first. I know when I bought it I was fed a lot of crap about it always being free from the reps at the store, which I knew wouldn't be true, but I wonder how many people fell for that.

I never liked the fact that they couldn't give a price for plan info for it though. If it were a fair price and we could actually get real unlimited usage from out plans...or at least equal to what is deemed unlimited by cable at home, I would gladly pay an upcharge and cancel my cable. All I use cable at home for is internet, and 4g is faster than what I tend to get.
 
so theyre capping tethering but they arent elimnating unlimited data yet?

can you still get unlimited tethering in your contract if you bring your own 4g phone?
 
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