How would Airtel detect hotspot use amid questions over its Unlimited 5G policy?

Airtel does not check whether a customer uses data through a mobile hotspot or directly on the handset, and the only operative limit on its Unlimited 5G Data is the 300 GB fair usage threshold, a source told MediaNama. The source added that Airtel removed the disputed clause barring hotspot sharing before it circulated this month in screenshots and tweets. Enforcing such a restriction would require the network to tell apart data shared to another device through the phone, known as tethering, fro