Tethering Complaint Filed Against Verizon with FCC by Free Press
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Tethering Complaint Filed Against Verizon with FCC by Free Press
The blocking of tethering apps by Verizon just got very real after a complaint was filed today through the FCC by
Free Press which could potentially impact the future of LTE. This has been one of those hot subjects around Droid Life over the last few weeks, so we couldn’t help but smile a little when we saw a group of this magnitude taking it straight to the top.
As you may recall, Droid-Life
first reported news that tethering apps had either been removed or purposefully blocked from being viewed and downloaded to Verizon devices. The move wasn’t necessarily a surprise since we know that Verizon likes to force you into purchasing an additional mobile hotspot service on top of your data plan, but the move was bold. And then just
last week we noticed that even if you had managed to load up a third party app from outside the market to tether, that Verizon was blocking you from doing so.
People grew angry at this for a number of reasons – and the complaint filed today by
Free Press pretty much touches on them all.
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Even if the complaints alleged are accurate, and I have no reason to doubt they aren't, Verizon can say that tethering violates their TOS and still cancel all the accounts that are tethering.
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Exactly, FBM. It all depends on what they want to allow or disallow.
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