topic Hotspot Allowance in Mobile Data

Hotspot Allowance

CFoxy98 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:11:18 GMT

Hi all,

how much hotspot allowance are we given?
I have an unlimited data plan. I’ve just moved house and Virgin have screwed us over and not installing till 18th Jan, I googled and it said if you have unlimited data you have unlimited hotspot as long as you don’t tether too many devices. However, I received a text last night from EE saying I’ve used 80% of my gifted data.

is there anything me and my friend can get to be able to use hotspot at home till internet is installed?

thanks.

Re: Hotspot Allowance

Northerner — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:19:40 GMT

Hi @CFoxy98

Unlimited contracts are 600GB as per the terms and conditions. You can gift 100Gb hence the warning.

You can only normally teather 10/12 separate items at any one time.

Thanks

Re: Hotspot Allowance

CFoxy98 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:37:51 GMT

Okay thank you.

this is going to be a fun month 🙄

Re: Hotspot Allowance

Gareth43 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 13:34:57 GMT

Gifting and tethering are 2 different things. You can only gift 100gb per month but you can hotspot all your data allowance if you want just aslong as you don’t hotspot too many things. Gifting actually means going into your my EE account and gifting data to another account on yre my EE account. You’ll be able to hotspot as much as you can normally use on yre own phone which with unlimited is 600gb

Re: Hotspot Allowance

CFoxy98 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 15:58:24 GMT

That’s what I thought, I’m just simply using my phone’s signal to use it on fire sticks etc. Hardly gifting data doing that.

but I’ve gifted 80% apparently but can you track how much you’ve used as on my EE app it just gives me no info about allowances.

Re: Hotspot Allowance

XRaySpeX — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:43:03 GMT

You haven't gifted 80%. You have used 80% of your giftable allowance by using your data yourself. Your giftable allowance is from the 1st 100GB of all your data in the month & every time you use data by hotspotting you are eating into that giftable allowance.

Re: Hotspot Allowance

CFoxy98 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:49:58 GMT

So I’ve used 80% of the first 100GB (which is giftable limit) of the 600GB I get with unlimited data package?

Re: Hotspot Allowance

XRaySpeX — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:59:00 GMT

Exactly!

Re: Hotspot Allowance

CFoxy98 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:15:31 GMT

Thank you 😊

Re: Hotspot Allowance

XRaySpeX — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:04:51 GMT

Thanks! You're welcome 🙂 ! Glad I could be of assistance & trust it is now sorted.

Re: Hotspot Allowance

CFoxy98 — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:14:35 GMT

Is there a number to text or way I can tell how much I’ve used?

Re: Hotspot Allowance

XRaySpeX — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:59:40 GMT

You could try texting BALANCE to 150 but I believe with unlimited data plans it refuses to tell you anything useful.

Re: Hotspot Allowance

CFoxy98 — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:57:13 GMT

Yeah nothing. Oh well, thank you for all your help!