https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Mobile-Data/Received-txt-msg-that-I-ve-used-my-gift-data-allowance-but-I-ve/m-p/1210716#M148173 <P>It's only talking about data that you may <STRONG>potentially</STRONG> gift from the 1st 100GB of all your data to other nos. on your a/c&nbsp;if you choose to. It's just a warning just in case you wanted to. You may safely ignore it &amp; carry on using data for your own purposes including hotspotting.<BR /><BR />As you use data for your own use you are eating into this gifting allowance even when you are not actually gifting it.<BR /><BR />Notice that it didn't say "You've gifted data you can gift" just that "You've used data you may gift".</P> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:06:21 GMT XRaySpeX 2022-12-16T17:06:21Z https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Mobile-Data/Received-txt-msg-that-I-ve-used-my-gift-data-allowance-but-I-ve/m-p/1210706#M148172 <P>I have hot spot to my laptop, but not gifted any data. Why have I received this message?&nbsp;</P> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:14:10 GMT https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Mobile-Data/Received-txt-msg-that-I-ve-used-my-gift-data-allowance-but-I-ve/m-p/1210706#M148172 MsKB 2022-12-16T16:14:10Z https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Mobile-Data/Received-txt-msg-that-I-ve-used-my-gift-data-allowance-but-I-ve/m-p/1210716#M148173 <P>It's only talking about data that you may <STRONG>potentially</STRONG> gift from the 1st 100GB of all your data to other nos. on your a/c&nbsp;if you choose to. It's just a warning just in case you wanted to. You may safely ignore it &amp; carry on using data for your own purposes including hotspotting.<BR /><BR />As you use data for your own use you are eating into this gifting allowance even when you are not actually gifting it.<BR /><BR />Notice that it didn't say "You've gifted data you can gift" just that "You've used data you may gift".</P> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:06:21 GMT https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Mobile-Data/Received-txt-msg-that-I-ve-used-my-gift-data-allowance-but-I-ve/m-p/1210716#M148173 XRaySpeX 2022-12-16T17:06:21Z