Interesting their website is still falsely advertising unlimited data with hotspot included. 

https://www.mightymobile.co.nz/ 

raytaylor:

 

Interesting their website is still falsely advertising unlimited data with hotspot included. 

 

https://www.mightymobile.co.nz/ 

 

Well... yes, that's still technically correct. They aren't charging an additional fee to use it, it's just the amount of data able to be used for hotspot is changing. It's still included.

Which means that the 'unlimited' statement is not accurate?

Misleading is still illegal. 

SomeoneSomewhere:

 

Which means that the 'unlimited' statement is not accurate?

 

 

 

Misleading is still illegal. 

 

It doesn't specify if the hotspot is unlimited or not. It also hasn't changed yet, so they should have a * next to it I guess, with a footnote "this will change on X date to"

We're less than a month away, so anyone who buys even a 1-month plan (for hotspotting) is going to be affected.

raytaylor:

 

grantius:

 

Hotspotting usually adds to TTL which is how they tell, if you are rooted on Android you can change it so the TTL doesn't increase.

 

 

I thought they just use the separate hotspot data channel (like a vlan) in the mobile connection that your phone creates and treat them as two separate connections rather than supplying them as two connections but combining them from a billing perspective. 

 

Nah, here's a good write up on it

https://josephscottcampbell.com/posts/get-free-hotspot-data/