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And, to be quite clear, you are violating AT&T's Terms of Service (TOS) for that plan.
Have people been caught doing this? If so, what happens?
And, to be quite clear, you are violating AT&T's Terms of Service (TOS) for that plan. The alternative is to pay a bit more per month and get a SIM from a business like OTR Mobile, a company that maintains it has a reseller relationship with AT&T and is authorized to use its SIMs in hotspots. Each of us has to decide what we feel comfortable doing. For the additional $25/mo it costs me to use OTR Mobile, I'm comfortable doing that.
LOL...wish you had mentioned OTR mobile in your earlier post????.. I may have went that route. Personally,I have been violated plenty by most every major cell carrier, so I am comfortable with bending the rules a little in this case 
Have people been caught doing this? If so, what happens?
2 years Prison and daily whippings with a 5ft LAN cable !!! ..Just kidding. They will likely close the prepaid account. At that point you will have to setup a new one or use another carriers plan like tmobil,verison ..or that OTR mobile docj mentioned
Edited November 21 by SurfsideNomad
Not sure if this is the same in the USA but in western Canada flyover country if you need one or two more “bars” of reception you turn off LTE.
Not sure if this is the same in the USA but in western Canada flyover country if you need one or two more “bars” of reception you turn off LTE.
Most phones automatically transfer from LTE to "legacy networks". The bars at the top of a phone display are "qualitative" not "quantitative". You can't use them as actual measures of signal strength.
Furthemore, although I don't know if it's going to happen in Canada or not, but Verizon is planning on shutting down its CDMA legacy network in the near future. Similarly, AT&T turned off its 2G system in 2017.
Have people been caught doing this? If so, what happens?
There was a pounding on my door, quite insistent. Since it was 2am and I was tired, I ignored it. Next thing I saw, peeking through a bleary eye, was the AT&T SWAT team putting a hood over my head and handcuffs on my wrists. I was whisked away quickly, driven for a long time, then put on a plane. After hours of flight, we landed and my hood was taken off. Where am I? What is this place? Nobody spoke a word. I would eventually learn from others like me, although we were commanded not to talk, that I was at AT&T's secret prison in Guantanamo. The torture wouldn't have been so bad if at least we had food and water. We were forced to eat rats to survive, and collect what rain water we could in our old dirty shoes. This was to be my life for the remainder of the AT&T contract term I had violated.
To this day, I find myself craving rat meat and shoe water.
Edited November 21 by Carlos
DocJ is correct. However if you consider that Cell companies do not follow their own rules nor the rules of the FCC. They advertise unlimited internet using a meaning of the word unlimited that is not in any dictionary. This is not by accident. They know full well that it is a form of a lie. But if it means more business they do not care. In this case being discussed no one is stealing the internet service. Users are just expanding the service from one device to another and paying for this service monthly Certainly no worse than what cell companies do every day. It is not illegal. I would suggest that ATT does not care or they would quickly close the loophole. many thousands of users have done something similar with the Mobley
However if you consider that Cell companies do not follow their own rules nor the rules of the FCC. They advertise unlimited internet using a meaning of the word unlimited that is not in any dictionary.
Best post I've read in a long time! So true!
It is not illegal.
It is absolutely illegal. I run a VoIP company; almost any violation of our ToS is illegal. Cell carriers have even more protections than we do. I've also been bumped off a data plan for putting the SIM into an unauthorized device. It took months, but suddenly one day it didn't work. Call them, and they explained that they detecting me using a phone-only SIM in an iPad.
It is absolutely illegal. I run a VoIP company; almost any violation of our ToS is illegal. Cell carriers have even more protections than we do. I've also been bumped off a data plan for putting the SIM into an unauthorized device. It took months, but suddenly one day it didn't work. Call them, and they explained that they detecting me using a phone-only SIM in an iPad.
So you moved the SIM back or what?
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