Originally Posted by corf:
“It certainly does not.”
Oh but it does.
Agree with moox here totally.
To me tethering means I can use the hotspot to connect my laptop when out and about, likewise for my wifi only tablet.
Or, as I did the other day up at Princetown in the snow with the kids, allow my cousin (Vodafone 2G there) to connect to get her photos on Bookface.. hehe!!!
Mobile phone hotspots are not meant to be used continuously anyway since they drop if not used for 2 minutes and the hoops you have to jump though to use it all the time on your home network / PC become a pain in the a***.
At the end of the day, any non techie person is not going to try and do it anyway for the above reason.
Only people like us will have a go and bluntly if you have some knowledge of these things you should also know that bandwidth is limited (even on 4G let alone 3G) and realistically it isn't sustainable.
It's called common sense.
As Jonmorris says, they should never have done it in the first place.
It was a bad business decision which has ultimately resulted in a swamped network, less profit and a crappy 4G rollout.
Don't get me wrong, I want to see Three do well.
Everyone was slating EE 2 years ago....
"it's a rip off", "thieving bastards", "4G is daylight robbery" etc. etc....
Where do you think the cash has come from for the current rollout which by all acounts is one of the fastest we have ever seen and is due to have 90% geographic 4G, WiFi calling, 4G+ and VoLTE with the next couple of years.
My "rip off" monthly sub, that's where.
You don't get ought for nought.