Who allows tethering? How much?

usignuolo

My OH bought a new android samsung mobile around two years ago and included with it, so he thought, the option to tether. He purchased from an Orange main dealer who assured him his contract had enough band width to support tethering. When, a month or so later, he found out he could not tether, he went back to Orange who said it was because it not explicit in his contract. Referred him back to the dealer who said at the time he bought the phone that was not a requirement.

To cut a long story short, around the time he bought the phone and signed up, Orange changed the Ts and Cs for tethering. Dealer sold him contract in good faith. He just got caught in the changeover. Anyway after several months of getting nowhere, he gave up on it.

However contract is up for renewal soon and of course Orange is now part of EE. So this time he wants to try again for tethering for which he has a business use. (He is a small business user). We have been trying to find out who offers tethering and on what terms but it is proving difficult - s it seems a lot of providers have changed their tethering terms over the last year. It is no longer a case, for example, of having sufficient bandwidth. Not with Orange anyway. Orange say it has to be spelt out in contract and as far we can tell, happy to be proved wrong, contract will be around £75 month.....

Can anyone here who has bought a phone with tethering package recently, give us a run down on the ts and cs? Or is there a comparison website which does so?

Cisco001

Three the one plan allow tethering.
http://www.three.co.uk/Privacy_Cookies/Terms_Conditions?site=d&content_aid=1220469566802


and EE allow tethering
http://ee.co.uk/help/add-ons-benefits-and-plans/wifi-and-tethering/tethering-your-device/about-tethering

StuC75

Im on 3 and have been easily able to tether my ipad to my iphone 5, although there have been cap's brought in on the newer contracts (but think my older contract is free of that)..

If he has a business use for it, then is your Son getting a business contract? or is it just a standard contract (bear in mind standard contracts will not have SLA's in place regarding any guarantee of service)..

What is he intending to tether to? and what amount of data is he likely to need? would some kind of dedicated 'mifi' type service be better as a dedicated mobile connection - as to be honest I find tethering to the phone just hammers the battery life - so not good if want to make a lot of calls as well..

Mobile operators would prefer users get specific data only services rather than overusing the All you can eat data phones with tethering.. As there is more money in it for them!..

usignuolo

He has a "small business user" contract with Orange currently costs around £45 month to include Samsung Galaxy S3. 2gb data per month.

He can connect his pc to his phone but pc cannot then access the internet via the phone. This option is blocked. He has talked to Orange about this and they say this is because tethering it is not a specific feature selected in his original contract; having sufficient bandwidth is not of itself not enough. He has to have signed up to tethering.

craigfit

Tablet and mobile phone tethering should work on any contract. It is desktop / laptop tethering they don't like.

usignuolo

It says on their website that you can pay for tethering on Orange as an add-on, but when OH spoke to Orange they said this was not true......

so if OH tethered tablet to phone it would work?

Who has best value deal on mifi if that is another option?

d123

craigfit wrote: »

Tablet and mobile phone tethering should work on any contract. It is desktop / laptop tethering they don't like.

That's not true, tethering a tablet is viewed in exactly the same way as tethering a laptop by the networks (and all the networks are improving tethering detection).

thomanski

GiffGaff offers 1-month-"goodybags" which contain e.g. for £10: 500 UK minutes (and giffgaff-to-giffgaff calls free), unlimited texts and 1 GB of traffic with tethering allowed. 1 GB isn't all that much though.

The obvious alternative - the £12 unlimited internet plan - sadly doesn't allow tethering.

What I'm using now is a "gigabag" at £12.50 which is 3 GB and data only, so I pay for calls to non-giffgaff numbers I make and for texts, too. But since I rarely do either that's not an issue for me.

I quite like giffgaff with calls to 0800 numbers being free and international calls being quite reasonably priced as well. GiffGaff runs on the O2 network and is apparently a wholly owned subsidiary.

Kernel_Sanders

What has tethering got to do with bandwidth? Are they saying that you're more likely to be using the desktop version of a site if you tether ?

sdduk

thomanski wrote: »

GiffGaff offers 1-month-"goodybags" which contain e.g. for £10: 500 UK minutes (and giffgaff-to-giffgaff calls free), unlimited texts and 1 GB of traffic with tethering allowed. 1 GB isn't all that much though.

The obvious alternative - the £12 unlimited internet plan - sadly doesn't allow tethering.

What I'm using now is a "gigabag" at £12.50 which is 3 GB and data only, so I pay for calls to non-giffgaff numbers I make and for texts, too. But since I rarely do either that's not an issue for me.

I quite like giffgaff with calls to 0800 numbers being free and international calls being quite reasonably priced as well. GiffGaff runs on the O2 network and is apparently a wholly owned subsidiary.

Yeah its owed by O2.

d123

sdduk wrote: »

Yeah its owed by O2.

It's actually owned by Telefonica (who also own O2).