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Hi there can anyone answer my question I want to know if using my personal hot spot on my iphone to conect my pc to the internet will take up any of my data usage?

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MI5
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Yes, it uses your data to provide the connection.
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MI5
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Yes, it uses your data to provide the connection.
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You bet it will, where do you think it comes from?

 

It will use it quicker too.

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ok thought it was a daft question lol.. so basicaly i'll get charged when it goes over my usuage allowance

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Apparently now if you go over you will just get cut off until the next month.
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@Anonymous wrote:

ok thought it was a daft question lol.. so basicaly i'll get charged when it goes over my usuage allowance


Not really, it's when people don't ask that the problems happen.

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No question is daft when you aren't sure of something.
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Never knew that MI5.

Last time I went over my limit MI5, I had my speeds slowed down to a snails pace. Seems a bit drastic though cutting customers off.
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It's a recent change that we have been alerted to by someone who got a landing page informing them to top up or wait until next month to get more data !!!
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@MI5 wrote:
It's a recent change that we have been alerted to by someone who got a landing page informing them to top up or wait until next month to get more data !!!

A change for the worst that imo 😞

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