Talk:United States/@comment-115.187.254.153-20160130073300/@comment-24682153-20160130100153

Hi Lisa.

AT&T and T-Mobile have opened all of their prepaid plans, data as well as voice & data (but just a very few like the $30 Walmart plan of T-Mobile) for hotspot use. So you are free to go on your iPhone to use it through tethering/hotspot to a MacBook.

You can take one of the offers of the other providers mentioned here as well. They only resell the network of T-Mobile or AT&T. But you have to check before, that they allow hotspot use.

The iPhone 6 is the most universal phone on the market right now. It covers all frequencies in Australia and the US. It's not sold in an US version, but only in a CDMA- and GSM-version. You'll surely buy a GSM device (cause there is no CDMA) in Australia and it has these LTE bands: 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 13(700), 17(700), 18(800), 19(800), 20(800), 25(1900), 26(850), 28(700), 29(700), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500). Some iPhone6s series models don't have 40 (2300), but this is negligible.

So you'll see you will be fully covered having 4G speeds except in the most remote areas like National Parks. The reference to 700 MHz was made as normally it's sufficient just to mention the MHz frequency. But what 700 MHz is concerned, it's on Band 28 in Australia (and will be in Europe and Asia soon) and 13 and 17 in the US. So unfortunately, it's not sufficient anymore just to name the MHz. As you see from this list above, your iPhone can cope with all.