
Second, your family can save a lot of bucks, considering that there’s no need of purchasing a new data plan for each member of the household who has a smartphone, which means more savings for the whole family and fewer profits for your mobile carrier operator. First, is that it can act as a portable WiFi hotspot when you’re traveling. There’s a lot of pros that you’ll be able to reap when sharing your Mobile Data to other devices. So yeah, you are still allowed to activate Wifi-Hotspot or Tethering on your Galaxy S8. Yet, it’s still Android, and it is your Android. It’s the same with the case when using a Verizon locked Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus or S8. In that sense, if you purchase a carrier locked smartphone, there’s a great chance that the WiFi/Mobile Data Hotspot features is either locked down or removed so may not utilize it unless, of course, you pay for the extra subscription fee. What they do is that they charge consumers an extra subscription fee to enable sharing mobile data through Mobile Data hotspots. Yet some carriers don’t allow tethering or the creation of Wifi-Hotspot with the mobile data they’re emitting so easily.


Almost every smartphone nowadays, if not all the current phones in the market, is enabled to create a Wifi-Hotspot to share mobile data with another device. WiFi-hotspot or Tethering is one of Android’s feature that we sort of taking for granted these days.
