bristolmrd wrote:
then what about the other guy who was using his phone to watch a show on regular tv instead of his phone . at t said he was tethering . to me then it wouldnt be much different that me using my trucks capabilities as a hands free phone . this is what got me started about wondering about my situation . to me it sounds like at t is trying for a way to make more money ( my opinion ) by providing a tethering cost/plan . if we pay for the data plans why should it be any of their business how we use as long as we dont go over what we pay for ?
mike
Tethering is when you use the phone's internet connection to access the internet from some other device (i.e. labtop, computer, tablet, etc). The key here is accessing the internet from that other device. Using the hands free calling capabilities of your phone via bluetooth is not tethering nor is streaming the audio output of internet radio from your phone to your truck via bluetooth. The difference here is that your truck radio is not accessing the internet. For the example of the guy watching regular tv, the reason that is tethering is the device he is using to watch tv (computer, labtop, tablet, etc) is actually accessing the internet using the phone's internet connection. If you could just launch a tv app on your phone and then stream the video to that other device, then it would not be tethering. By the way, that is doable on an iphone using the hdmi adaptor. You can easily watch the output of most video apps on any device with an hdmi input.
As for your observation that AT&T just wants a way to make more money, I remind you that tethering is included at no extra charge in all AT&T shared data plans.
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