free Wifi tethering/hotspot ?

[soso94]

Hey...
So.. i know this gonna sound nooby and stupid but.. I've been thinking about rooting and searching why would most people wanna root their android phones and it turned out to be mainly for getting free wifi tethering or the free hotspot
the quistion is... what exactly is this free wifi tethering i really want to know everything about it. i hope someone here explain it to me >_<
thanks in advance

 

[chanchan05]

its not exactly free wifi tethering.

Tethering is when you share your phone's internet connection (via mobile network) to your laptop.

In the US, for people to be able to do this, on top of their monthly bill for data, they have to pay an additional $20-30 so that they will be allowed to tether. Otherwise if they try to enable tethering on their phone, it won't work and the phone will have a popup saying that it is not enabled in their contract. Basically people root so that they can remove the "lock" preventing them to activate tether.

Technically this is both stealing and not stealing. This is stealing because they are acquiring a paid service for free, but it is also not stealing because in the past this service was free as an inherent capability of their phones. In my country for example (I'm in Asia), tethering from the phone has no additional charges.

 

[soso94]

ohhh... now i get it...
now it doesnt seem like a big thing since i havent got a laptop of my own... :/
oh well im gonna root anyway.. XD
thanks alot for your help really

 

[Jillialy]

Rooting android phones is useful.I am consider to do so.

 

[ExtremeNerd]

ohhh... now i get it...
now it doesnt seem like a big thing since i havent got a laptop of my own... :/
oh well im gonna root anyway.. XD
thanks alot for your help really

Don't. When you screw it up, the rest of us pay for your returned device.

 

[350X]

free WiFi tethering is something you get when you goto MCDonalds, Starbucks, stay at a hotel... They provide free WiFi to paying customers.

like having free water, most businesses have it now.