Thanks Lee, I also am on the grandfathered AT&T plan, so I won't want to get 
rid of this...Verizon would not allow the grandfather when we changed phones, 
had to get rid of the better plan....

John


On Oct 21, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Oct 20, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
> 
>> Do you need anything other than your cell phone - any special software?
> 
> No you don't. It's been in the Settings for as long as I can remember. 
> 
> There is a catch: Most of the carriers want to charge you extra money, if you 
> start using your phone as a tethered base station. I am still grandfathered 
> into an AT&T unlimited data plan, and they'll immediately switch me over to a 
> limited data plan and start charging me for tethering, if I send use any 
> shared data.
> 
> The phone barons can detect a tethered phone by inspecting the TCP/IP packets 
> going over their networks.
> 
> 
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