Received txt msg that I’ve used my gift data allowance, but I’ve not gifted any
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16-12-2022 04:14 PM
I have hot spot to my laptop, but not gifted any data. Why have I received this message?
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16-12-2022 05:06 PM
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".
To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband or Option 2 for Home Broadband & Home Phone
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16-12-2022 05:06 PM
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".
To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband or Option 2 for Home Broadband & Home Phone
ISPs: 1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up > 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB > 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB > 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU > 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU > 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC > 2014: EE 20 Meg WBC > 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC > 2022:EE 80 Meg FTTC SoGEA > 2025 EE 150 Meg FTTP

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