Findings: Data Tethering Is A Culprit To Data Zapping

We have found out that at some point in time, people have accused or attributed data zapping to each of the 4 major GSM network providers of MTN, Airtel, Glo or Etisalat and Airtel being the most accused.

When MTN unleashed their new data plans, subscribers did not spare MTN and MTN was strongly criticized for data zapping.

Etisalat has not been left out either, and in as much that many people agree that Etisalat browsing is fast in many locations, subscribers have at some point also accused Etisalat for data zapping.

Recently, there is a new sheriff in town and we have been hearing folks complain that their latest subscriptions to Glo new, huge and cheap data plans are being zapped on the course of browsing.

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For Airtel, almost everybody sees them as data zapping Lord, even when we have succeeded recently in posting all the airtel data plans that don’t zap data.

Now, if all these networks truly zap data as you allege sometimes, where are you going to run to?

We are not saying that these networks don’t zap data sometimes but we were able to figure out a hidden culprit that is also a partaker in data zapping and that most people are yet to come to terms with.

And that hidden culprit as you have already seen in the topic of the day is WiFi Hotspot Data Tethering.

By now we believe that you all know what data tethering is all about, but for few who don’t still know; data tethering is when you share your internet data with other devices through Bluetooth, data transfer cable or via WiFi.

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And in this particular case, we are referring to the most common of all, which is data tethering via WiFi.

We noticed that when you use your device as WiFi hotspot and tether those data plans from any of MTN, Airtel, Glo or Etisalat to other devices via WiFi, and even if it is a single device that you are tethering to, the data burns twice as fast when used on the tethered device alone than when used normally on a particular device without tethering.

This is an experiment that we have been carrying out for quite some time now and WiFi hotspot data tethering is indeed one of the major culprits of data zapping.

Finally before we leave you, another finding on the cause of our experiment also shows that apart from data zapping, WiFi hotspot tethering also has its good side, as it has been known to be a perfect antidote to slow data network connectivity; in other words, WiFi hotspot tethering has a way of improving poor network and causes you to browse at faster data connectivity speed on the tethered device.