It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone refuses to open one. Everyone responsible for this shit should be fed to alligators locked away in a fucking gulag. We have no rights and live in a corporate plutocracy.

  • HnuWETqkp4YG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    In America, some carriers disable hotspot on the devices they sell and hold you hostage. There are many ways around this. The best way is to use OEM non carrier phones. Other options include pdanet and several other apps designed to bypass the carrier software locks. My graphene os hotspot works perfectly no matter what carrier I use

    Edit: Oh, and you can forget it on iphones. Apple loves sucking carriers dicks and fucking you all over. They go out of their way to ensure the carriers are robbing you before allowing hotspot use

    • KrisND@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Yep, after finding out about Verizon locking bios I decided to never by direct from carrier again. Plus, these alternative OS options need support. I run GraphineOS, it was quick and easy, never had an issue.

      But google probably has been working on making newer versions of android closed-sourced, especially for OEMS. I say probably because there isn’t any actual hardcore proof but imo the bios lock is just the start.

    • Jeanschyso@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thank you, I was wondering about that. I never had an issue using a hotspot with Vidéotron or Rogers in Québec, so this post was very confusing to me.

    • fury@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have an iPhone through T-mobile and I don’t have to pay extra for my hotspot. Kinda hilarious, though, I only get 20 gigglebytes of high speed hotspot, which my 5g can blow through in as little as 3 minutes 45 seconds as of the latest speed test (712mbps). After that, it caps it at 600kbps. They have no problem with me using hundreds of gigglebytes directly on the phone, for some reason, I don’t see why they have to limit hotspot.