Mobile Hotspot
Turn your phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot
so you can share your mobile data connection
with up to 8 other devices.
To use your phone's mobile hotspot capability,
you must have the Smartphone Mobile
Hotspot service as part of your rate plan.
You will see
feature is active.
NOTE You cannot use Wi-Fi and use your phone
as a hotspot at the same time.
Configure Mobile Hotspot
1 From the Home screen, tap the Menu key
, then tap System settings > Networks
tab > Tethering & networks > Mobile
Hotspot.
2 Tap Configure Mobile Hotspot.
Tap the Network SSID field to enter a new
network name, if desired.
Tap the Security drop-down menu and
select from the following options.
WPA2 PSK is recommended due to
increased data security and prevents
unauthorized use of your data plan:
• Open
• WPA PSK
• WPA2 PSK
For any security level but Open, tap the
Password field to enter a password.
Tap Save.
on the Status Bar when the
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