Hotspot: Pro-rating. Anyone heard?
Back when I had a Razr phone I could use it as a modem for my computer. The hotspot feature will be nicer inasmuch as up to five devices can share the internet connection, and over wireless (as opposed to a USB cable). That tethering feature was $60 per month). However, they would prorate it for you, so that if you only wanted it for a day, you could cancel it before the day was over and pay only $2.
Has anyone heard whether the hotspot feature will work that way, or is it only available in 1-month chunks?
$20 is a decent price in my opinion, but for those of us who only need this feature once in a while, it would be nice to enable it for a day or two and only pay 1/30 of the cost.
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Back when I had a Razr phone I could use it as a modem for my computer. The hotspot feature will be nicer inasmuch as up to five devices can share the internet connection, and over wireless (as opposed to a USB cable). That tethering feature was $60 per month). However, they would prorate it for you, so that if you only wanted it for a day, you could cancel it before the day was over and pay only $2.
Has anyone heard whether the hotspot feature will work that way, or is it only available in 1-month chunks?
$20 is a decent price in my opinion, but for those of us who only need this feature once in a while, it would be nice to enable it for a day or two and only pay 1/30 of the cost.
You can still prorate it, but I don't know why that would be a favorable option beyond the cost. Consider:
There are 31 days in your cycle from December to January. During this cycle, you add the feature for two days. You would factor the prorated cost as 20/31days in cycle = $.65/day * 2/active days = $1.29. Just as much, the allowance would be prorated as well, which translates to 2048 megabytes (2GB)/31 days =66MB/day * 2/active days = 132MB or .1289GB. If you go over the prorated allowance, you are then charged an additional $20/GB that you go over, even if the overage is by one little KB. So, while superficially it looks like a good savings, the danger far outweighs the benefit, especially since the content on the internet is using more and more data every day.
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