Using a Mobile phone to use as Wifi for Laptop

NiftyDigits

d123 wrote: »

It's not, I've had a number of EE PAYG sims in iPhones (5/5s/5c/6/6s) and have never seen that message.

The hotspot feature works as it should.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4823647?tstart=0

d123

NiftyDigits wrote: »

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4823647?tstart=0

Did you actually read your link ND?

I made the point in a previous post that EE have always allowed tethering but Orange and T-Mobile have blocked it for PAYG in the past.

Your link:

I have an iPhone 4S bought from apple directly and I have been using a T-mobile sim on it. When I travel I used the personal hotspot to connect my laptop to the iphone, please note this is a paid service in t-mobile. I got to know that Virgin media offers the same service free and therefore I got a new pay monthly sim from virgin media and checked with them that they do allow tethering. Now the issue is that if I try to setup my personal hotspot it gives the message ""To enable Personal Hotspot on this account, please contact EE", as you might know that t-mobile is now called EE.

I did contact T-mobile (EE) and checked whether they have put any kind of lock on my account which they said they have not and blamed apple for the fault. I am kind of stuck in the middle and looking for any advice. Last but not the least, I have done the reset network settings, reset all settings, restart and upgraded the OS to 6.1.2 as well.

Edit

Reading the thread you've linked to further, the problem also seems to be because the OP in that thread wanted to use a Virgin sim, that would have been impossible in 2013 (which is the date of the linked thread) as Virgin wasn't a supported operator. That's where the error message that OP was getting mentioned EE (T-Mobile) as well (the iPhone would show a default message as EE because as far it was concerned a Virgin sim would actually just be an EE sim). Of course that changed when Virgin became an iPhone supplier in their own right.

All completely OT as far as this thread is concerned though.