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Can I use my iPhone sim in iPad without incurring tether charge?

  • 04-02-2012 6:18pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭


    Question is in the title. If I tether my iPad2 from my iPhone4 I get charged for tethering even though I have plenty of data allowance left in my Vodafone bundle. So, if I use the iPhone sim in the iPad will it still behave as if the phone is utilising it's data allowance or will it connect to a different apn and get me charged for tethering?

    Any help appreciated!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,213 ✭✭✭culabula


    Alatar wrote: »
    Question is in the title. If I tether my iPad2 from my iPhone4 I get charged for tethering even though I have plenty of data allowance left in my Vodafone bundle. So, if I use the iPhone sim in the iPad will it still behave as if the phone is utilising it's data allowance or will it connect to a different apn and get me charged for tethering?

    Any help appreciated!

    There will be no charge if you simply place it in iPad for the duration. You can check the APN in settings/network.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    An alternative way of doing it would be to jailbreak, and install MyWi from Cydia. You can tether without incurring tether charges this way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Irish_Elect_Eng


    Do Vodaphone charge for sharing your phone internet connection with your iPad?

    How can they change when you great a personal hotspot and use that to connect to the internet using that via wi-fi? How can they tell the difference?

    Or are you using another method?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,153 ✭✭✭bkehoe


    Vodafone no longer charge for tethering for users that are bill pay customers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭guil


    Do Vodaphone charge for sharing your phone internet connection with your iPad?

    How can they change when you great a personal hotspot and use that to connect to the internet using that via wi-fi? How can they tell the difference?

    Or are you using another method?
    there's a different apn used for tethering so that's how they know


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Irish_Elect_Eng


    guil wrote: »
    there's a different apn used for tethering so that's how they know

    Thanks, good to know.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Thanks, good to know.

    They use live.vodafone.com for regular browsing on the phone. The Personal Hotspot uses office.vodafone.ie. It doesn't make much of a difference anymore as they no longer charge extra to bill pay users for tethering.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭construct06


    is this true, is it not just for iphone 4s users?
    when did they stop charging for tethering?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    is this true, is it not just for iphone 4s users?
    when did they stop charging for tethering?

    It was announced on here in December.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭BanjoB


    What about ready to go customers??.

    I pay the 30 euro offer to get free calls and texts to Vodafone and also get a 250mb packet of Internet data for the month.

    Will I get charged for tethering to my iPad from iPhone 4s???


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,213 ✭✭✭culabula


    BanjoB wrote: »
    What about ready to go customers??.

    I pay the 30 euro offer to get free calls and texts to Vodafone and also get a 250mb packet of Internet data for the month.

    Will I get charged for tethering to my iPad from iPhone 4s???

    If I were you, I would switch to the International bundle.

    You still pay 30€. You get free calls/SMS to other Vodafone subs and 180 free international minutes a month plus 600 international/domestic webtexts.

    Now, take that 30€ credit and use 20€ of it to get 5Gb of data per month by buying a bundle in extras, leaving you with 10€ for calls to other nets.

    Change the APN in the phone to hs.vodafone.ie.

    Tether away.


  • Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭Alatar


    Thanks for all the replies everyone! I made a call to Vodafone and bkehoe is correct. Tethering is now included in the data bundle.


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