Wifi hotspot is a service offered to you by sprint (and/or other carriers). This service has a monthly fee. And by using an app whether it's for root/unroot, free or paid, to obtain said service without paying for it is.....wait for it.....stealing. Running a cable line from your buddy's house next door to yours so you can get cable is....stealing. The only difference here is that your using an app instead of a physical cable line to obtain a service for free. SO if it's a prohibited use of the network and you use tools to obtain what is prohibited....is that not wrong?? Damn sure doesn't make it right! To most intelligent people, it's stealing.
@ stearmandriver:
Your plan consists of unlimited data to the device it's tethered to. You have an E4GT, unlimited data is to that E4GT only. You have an ipoop, unlimited data is only to that ipoop. If you want to take that data from said devices and pull it down to another device, i.e. PC, lap/netbook, tablet, you have to purchase the tethering plan. What's philosophicaly hard to understand about that? You purchase a phone with an unlimited plan, your paying to use unlimited data to THAT phone.
Look, I don't care what anyone does. Seriously. I'm just stating my opinion on the matter. If all or most of you are getting away with it...Great! And most likely, if you did get caught, sprint would tell you to stop or pay for it and consequenses would ensue if you didn't. But I do know this......If sprint said, "Due to all the network traffic generated by apps to obtain free tethering services, we have to now ditch unlimited data and put a 5GB cap and add another 10 bucks to your bill per month to regain the losses we had to pay the data farm to maintain that data.", you and everyone else, will be throwing a temper tantrum calling sprint every name in the book saying it's not fair. Nuff said.