Talk:Austria/@comment-27968765-20190708232956/@comment-24682153-20190709090345

Tethering or mobile hotspot use is allowed on all SIM cards in Austria, even on their "unlimited" data rates. In fact, these plans are often used as a substitution for a DSL/cable landline.

International roaming is now banned on all A1-branded prepaid SIM cards, but presumably only on the new ones given out since spring 2019. I guess it's still enabled on old A1 SIMs and of course contracts. Austria so far is the only country that moved backwards after the implementation of EU roaming to protect their telcos. This is astonishing as it receives a lot of visitors from all over the world bringing much inbound roaming. These countries/telcos are normally rather relaxed about their own costumers roaming outside like in Italy, France or Spain.

If you want to stick to A1, it's better to buy their budget brand yesss which still roams everywhere. In Germany you even get all three available LTE-networks. But rigid time and volume limits (so-called FUPs) still apply.