Anyone use the WiFi hotspot?

[G-Man]

Ford and AT&T include a month or two complementary access to the wifi hotspot, then charge you $25/mo to continue. I totally get it if you have kiddos in the back seat with wifi-only devices on a long trip. That's as needed as air conditioning in Tennessee. But with a grown kid and an unlimited data plan on my phone, is there a point I'm missing as to the usefulness of car wifi? Are any of you no-kid-passenger drivers using wifi?

 

[Jeev]

I have kiddos and I find these car hotspots not very useful since all modern phones can do this on the existing plans. Im thinking that if someone is limited in on data it may be of use but I have never used them.

 

[P0H0]

For me SirusXM and WiFi Hotspot are pretty much pointless. I used to have it so my daughter could listen to the Disney channel — she’s 20 now — so, yeah… Cell coverage is pretty awesome, and I do have a playlist or two downloaded to the phone — so again…

Every once and a while its free over a weekend, kinda neat to see it works for a second before I switch back to my iPhone.

At one point I was paying SiriusXM $2 a month for their full service. I figured, for that price I’ll keep it just in case. Well they want $5 now, so its off again. I wonder how much longer they will manage to stay in business…

 

[RotorHead695]

Ford and AT&T include a month or two complementary access to the wifi hotspot, then charge you $25/mo to continue. I totally get it if you have kiddos in the back seat with wifi-only devices on a long trip. That's as needed as air conditioning in Tennessee. But with a grown kid and an unlimited data plan on my phone, is there a point I'm missing as to the usefulness of car wifi? Are any of you no-kid-passenger drivers using wifi?

I've heard of people getting internet over their hotspot when in remote areas because the antenna on the truck was stronger than their phone. For most applications, probably not needed.

 

[G-Man]

For me SirusXM and WiFi Hotspot are pretty much pointless. I used to have it so my daughter could listen to the Disney channel — she’s 20 now — so, yeah… Cell coverage is pretty awesome, and I do have a playlist or two downloaded to the phone — so again…

Every once and a while its free over a weekend, kinda neat to see it works for a second before I switch back to my iPhone.

At one point I was paying SiriusXM $2 a month for their full service. I figured, for that price I’ll keep it just in case. Well they want $5 now, so its off again. I wonder how much longer they will manage to stay in business…

Listener preference I suppose. I listen to SiriusXM pretty much everyday and have for a long time...wife, too. They have over 34 million monthly subscribers with paid accounts. If they only averaged $10/mo (and most plans are higher), they're bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars per month, so they're probably doing OK.

What you all are saying about the wifi, though, is exactly my thoughts on it. Unless you need a little signal boost in the hinterlands, it's probably pointless with a good phone data plan.