Your organization's new mobile-device policy prohibits employees from enabling a feature that allows a company smartphone to share its cellular data connection with nearby laptops and tablets over Wi-Fi. Which smartphone feature is the policy referring to?
Smartphones include a mobile (or personal) hotspot feature that turns the phone into a small Wi-Fi access point. Other devices connect to that Wi-Fi network and use the phone's 4G/5G data connection for Internet access. Because this can quickly consume cellular data and may incur additional carrier fees, many companies disable or restrict the feature.
Why the other options are wrong:
NFC is a very short-range technology used for payments or quick data exchanges, not Internet sharing.
AirDrop is Apple's local file-transfer service that works only between Apple devices on Bluetooth/Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi Direct creates a peer-to-peer wireless link between two devices but does not automatically route traffic to the cellular Internet connection.
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