Gift data to 1 Month SIM only iPad

[spinstorm]

I just upgraded my iPad Pro to a monthly 5GB rolling data sim.

I was looking to see if I could gift data from my phone to my iPad like I was able to do on my 20GB iPad plan but it doesn’t give me the option. It doesn’t show my iPad number as being a number to gift data to.

How can I gift data from my phone to my ipad?

[XRaySpeX]

You can't gift to a 4GEE data SIM on a 30-day rolling contract.

[spinstorm]

That seems a bit stupid - I can tether my phone to the iPad and as I am on an unlimited plan that means I can use 100GB - which I would never come close to using.

Up until I upgraded this plan I was using 20GB on the iPad and another 10GB gifted.

I simply do not want to get stuck in a contract for 12 months when I can tether.

[XRaySpeX]

When tethering your iPad to your phone you may use up to 1000GB of your unlimited data. Tethering is not gifting data.

[spinstorm]

Yes I realise that. My point was it has the same effect as gifting.

So that restriction makes little sense.

[Chris_B]

@spinstorm   Unfortunately it’s only available to 12/18/24 month contracts.     While it make no sense to you as you can tether to use the data EE can not make one rule for you and a different rule for other customers who have a 30 day rolling contract used in a phone. 

[XRaySpeX]

How's it have same effect as gifting?

By tethering you may use up to 1000 GB data but by being gifted you may only use up to the first 100 GB of all the data.