tethering

Greece had a primary surplus, it's tethering on the edge of not having a surplus any more.

You're expected to bring your own infrastructure which usually boils down to tethering your mobile.

The agency fined Verizon, for instance, when it tried to block third-party tethering apps [2].

Google Now) - Android can be restricted from tethering (and operators do do that).

So apparently with my Lumia I had to ask permission from my operator in order to do tethering.

Yes, and tethering charges are basically charging consumers twice for accessing that data.

I've never met an Android phone that disallowed tethering based on the whims of these operators.

Of just tethering his phone, if you're a relatively rich family?

If not, it could prove very expensive for tethering users.

My Galaxy S4 on AT&T did not allow me to turn on tethering until I switched to a plan which included it.

About tethering restrictions: I would have hoped network neutrality would forbid those as well.

Basically doubling the monthly cost, and that didn’t have tethering.

I connect to the internet exclusively via tethering to my phone and while tethered I started seeing messages in Firefox from my desktop machine giving warnings that were something like "Could not establish secure connection because the server supports a higher version of TLS".

My Android phone (galaxy s6) can do all that by default under Settings->Tethering and Hotspot.

Tethering from mobile was choppy and had to get to more stable wifi.