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Share Tweet Pin. Bookmark All current Verizon phone plans include access to the Personal Hotspot feature built into iOS and Android to create a local Wi-Fi hotspot to share your cellular connection. Until a few days ago, that is Where we stand today is that there is no word on when or even if a fix to FoxFi is possible.
If you have an old grandfathered plan impacted by this change that is anything other than the old Unlimited Data plan, it may make sense to give up the old plan and switch to a new one that includes tethering support built in. But if you have a grandfathered unlimited plan - do NOT give it up! Pay To Add Tethering. You can enable this feature in your Verizon online account management page - and you can always turn it off down the road if FoxFi ever gets fixed.
Verizon only ever restricted the built in connection sharing feature on phones. The downside of this route is that you will be unable to make voice calls and send txt messages while your SIM is out of your regular phone.
This gets a single computer online - if you need to create a Wi-Fi hotspot to share the connection further you can actually let your computer create the Wi-Fi hotspot for other devices to connect to. This post on the XDA Forums explains the steps necessary to do so. Beware FoxFi Alternatives. There are a lot of other tethering apps on the Google Play store, but most of them require a phone that has been "rooted" to work - which means that almost all Verizon phones are not supported.
Reading the reviews, other advertised apps seem to just not work at all - or are reportedly full of suspicious spy software. In my hunting I could not find a single FoxFi alternative that is a worthwhile and safe alternative. If anyone does know of any - let us know and we will update this post. The developer of FoxFi issued an official statement: There has been a temporary glitch with Verizon service in the past few days that affected our software but we have resolved it.
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