Instead, you’re required to purchase a tethering option, which gives you a couple of gigabytes for tethering (though your phone will still have unlimited data). However, Sprint does not allow you to tether on your unlimited data plan. Sprint is the only carrier that still has unlimited phone data plans. However, Verizon has no way of knowing if you’re using a third-party app to tether. If you have an old unlimited plan, you are technically required to pay $20 per month for tethering? whether you’re using a third-party app or your phone’s mobile hotspot feature.You can also use your phone’s mobile hotspot feature for an additional $20 per month (per device), which also gets you an additional 2GB of data. If you have an old usage-based data plan, you can now use a third-party tethering app free of charge.Overage rates for shared data plans are $15 per gigabyte.

If you have a new Verizon “Share Everything” plan, you can use your phone’s built-in mobile hotspot feature or a third-party tethering app free of charge? but you’re limited to the data in your Share Everything data pool.This doesn’t mean that all tethering on Verizon is free, though?it’s not. This means that Verizon’s Android users on usage-based plans can avoid the $20 tethering fee by using a third-party app instead of their phone’s built-in tethering option (called Mobile Broadband Connect).

You may or may not have heard the news: Verizon recently announced that, thanks to an FCC investigation, it will stop blocking its Android users from downloading and using third-party tethering apps.

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