Not true, been on PAYG £15 a month all you can eat data for years, been tethering 10-20gb a month.
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Not true, been on PAYG £15 a month all you can eat data for years, been tethering 10-20gb a month.
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Yeah technically it's not allowed but they don't do much to stop it.
They have the ability to do so however.
They have the ability to do so however.
Yes true, it's a recent change to new contracts. Old contracts/PAYG agreements are unchanged.
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The new changes don't affect PAYG. You haven't been able to tether on PAYG for years anyway.
The new changes allow you a 4GB tethering allowance. This only applies to contracts however.
Yep there's a block that disables all data as soon as they detect a non-mobile OS using data.
So it's still possible to tether to a tablet or another phone, but if you try and tether to a desktop/laptop/etc it shuts down all data immediately.
This is simply not true, just to prove the point I am now tethered to my moto G posting this reply with the motor G providing my internet connection to my main home PC. (motor G connection is being used as a wifi hotspot)
Having both O2 and GG data sims I'm lucky much of the day to get dialup speeds on GG atm whereas swapping to the O2 sim speeds shoot straight up to the ~10Mbit/s area with a full H+ signal and about 200m from the mast with roughly line of sight.
But you've already told us that you are NOT on a contract taken out since the changes came into affect...
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Not true.
Only if you put the SIM in a device that isn't a phone does the SIM get blocked.
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The changes don't affect PAYG!!!!
You haven't been able to tether on PAYG for years. But it still works.
It's 100% true, I'm on Three and have tried it. Obviously this is for the contracts I'm referring to, the ones that came in after they changed their recent rules.
The point I'm trying to make is that Three do not offer any way (as of NOW) to get unlimited tethering. If there is a way, then please show me as I'd like to move on to it!
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I tried it yesterday and it worked.
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No they do not, officially.
On contract there is no way. But on PAYG, although tethering is not allowed, it still works.
I am afraid you don't know what you're talking about.
On contract there is no way. But on PAYG, although tethering is not allowed, it still works.
I am afraid you don't know what you're talking about.
I could say the same to you!
I have no idea what the rules are, or what is possible on old PAYG contracts, nor have I ever said anything to suggest I do
Here is what I have said: Three do not offer any contracts with unlimited tethering. Contracts taken out now, which don't have a tethering allowance will block data when you try and tether to a non-mobile OS device.
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Yes that's true.
But as I am trying to explain to you: tethering works just fine to a PC (or other device) on PAYG even if it isn't technically allowed.
But as I am trying to explain to you: tethering works just fine to a PC (or other device) on PAYG even if it isn't technically allowed.
Then fair enough, but that was never what I was trying to say.
Glad we understand what we're both saying now though.
