Talk:United Kingdom/@comment-87.139.209.36-20130503093832

I travelled to the UK (Scotland and Northern Ireland, to be precise) in April and was prepared to buy a SIM from Virgin mobile for my mobile Hotspot. They told me Virgin didn't support tethering (at least that's what they told me) and that I should try with 3 Mobile.

Unfortunately I found out that there normally tethering isn't allowed as well. On top of that they said that these 30-day-PAYG-cards can only be purchased when owning a UK bank account or credit card.

Long story short: We ended up using a week-pass (or something like that) of my mate's german T-Com account on his iphone and we went ok with that. I'm still not sure, if any card of any UK provider does work with a mobile hotspot. Maybe the normal smartphone PAYG cards, which were said to not allow tethering, work with a mobile hotspot, but we didn't take the risk of trying that out.

Just wanted to inform people travelling to the UK about this, so you don't end up walking from one shop to another like us ;-)