| Joined: | Wed Apr 11th, 2012 |
| Location: | Melbourne, Australia |
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I think the option 'personal hotspot' is not visible in the main settings menu until you have visited settings>general>network>personal hotspot and selected 'on'
After this it will remain available as the 3rd option under 'settings, regardless of its on/off status
I recommend installing something like quota to track your usage and check how much you will get charged if you go over your quota
I got charged $100 for going 500mb over my 500mb quota
(refunded because I had already requested a 2000mb data bolt on for $10/month)
A client of mine got charged $25000 for using a few hundred megabytes when overseas thanks to a helpful Telstra employee (young lad in a telstra shop) telling him it shouldn't be too expensive to use roaming (I think the question related to calls and the victim didn't understand the difference/option of data roaming which was switched on
Telstra kindly reduced it to $2500, after he complained
It's a shame he wasn't already a client at the time this happened since I would have made sure he was able to remain connected at a very low cost using Skype/free wifi
Telstra (actually all Australian Telcos) have some of the most expensive roaming charges in the world, they are as standard walking away from large bills because folk just can't pay them. A week in NY, receiving 60-80 e-mails a day on a Blackberry with Optus was about $1000, and thats without attachments.