When this ruling was first made it didn't work with the built-in Personal Hotspot feature in phones, because enabling that feature always checked with your wireless carrier to see if you had paid for it. Verizon didn't officially enable it for all customers as the ruling only said they couldn't block it (which doesn't mean making it easy for everyone to use), so you had to get a 3rd party app. Apple doesn't allow 3rd party apps that provide tethering in their app store, so you couldn't get it for iPhone. I'm still not sure if you can use the FCC mandated free tethering through the built-in Personal Hotspot function.
Based on some comments above this might have changed, but I'm skeptical because hotspot is also now officially included in many data plans as a default option, so you would only be able to confirm if you're not using one of these plans. Older unlimited plans were specifically not part of the ruling for some reason. ❧ Brian Mathis @orev On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Craig Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > >These are only available through Android as Apple does not allow > tethering apps in their app store. > > IOS 8.x has a feature called "Personal Hotspot". It creates a WiFi access > point (or you can use Bluetooth or USB) for you to connect to. > > Craig > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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