topic Re: 80% gifted data used in Archived Posts

80% gifted data used

Picatrix — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:46:24 GMT

Hello I've just received a strange message

"Hi from EE: You've used 80% of the data you can gift. Don't worry, this doesn't affect your unlimited data allowance."

I'm on an unlimited plan and didn't gift any data to anyone.

I choose this expensive plan as I'm working from home.

Since when hot spotting to my laptop is gifting?

Shall I change provider?

Re: 80% gifted data used

XRaySpeX — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:50:24 GMT

It's only talking about data that you may potentially gift from the 1st 100GB of all your data to other nos. on your a/c if you choose to. It's just a warning just in case you wanted to. You may safely ignore it & carry on using data for your own purposes including hotspotting.

As you use data for your own use you are eating into this gifting allowance even when you are not actually gifting it.

Notice that it didn't say "You've gifted data you can gift" just that "You've used data you may gift".