Unable to bluetooth pair iPhone and MacBook Pro

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Kabul, Afghanistan
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MBP 15in; iPhone 4; iPad 2
I have an iPhone 4 running 5.1 (9B176) and a Macbook Pro running OS X 10.7.3. I am currently in a place were I can only receive a wifi signal on one device. The account won't share amongst multiple devices. I have my iPad paired via bluetooth to the MBP and can use the internet from it. When I try to use my iPhone I have problems. It will pair on the MBP and iPhone, but when I try to connect from the MBP it will say the device is out of range, and if I connect from the iPhone, it says my MBP is not a supported device with the only option of "forget this connection". I have looked around and many people have this problem but no one seems to have an answer. Anything new about this problem? Thanks for any help.

Blake
 
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09 MBP 8GB ram 500GB HD OS 10.9 32B iPad 4 32GB iPhone 5 iOs7 2TB TC Apple TV3
Do you have a tethering plan ?
 
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Do you have a tethering plan ?

I'm not trying to get internet only MBP from my iPhone. I'm trying to get internet on my iPhone from my MBP. My phone isn't a phone at all right now. I'm in Afghanistan and using it as an iPod.
 
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I'm not receiving my internet via LAN, it is coming from wifi. There is no LAN capabilities here, it is only wifi. I can only have one device logged in tot he account at a time. And I'm not paying another $100 for 30 days of crap internet to have 2 devices. I am trying to share the internet that is coming to my MBP via wifi, to my iPhone via BT. I can do it to my iPad, but not my iPhone. I get the error I described in the original post.
 

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