Originally Posted by
worldwidedreamer
T-mobile prevents you from using HotSpot@Home phones outside of the United States. Unless you have a US-based proxy (and then the quality will probably be too low) you are SOL. I've tried to use HotSpot@Home in Japan, HK, China, etc. with no luck. To me this is the biggest downside to the HotSpot@Home program.
Actually, anecdotal evidence from the thread I linked to above suggests that it is possible, although sometimes glitchy:
"Got back from Thailand this week. Worked great for me with the Samsung t409"
"I recently traveled to Japan , China (Shanghai, Guangzhou, HK..) , Bangkok, Singapore, two days ago was in Mexico city.
it works anywhere if you have Wi-Fi internet access ."
"Another update from Seoul. My H@H service was dead for several weeks beginning around Thanksgiving (as posted previously). I had a business trip to Hawaii last week, and when I arrived my phone did not work on GSM nor UMA. After a couple of calls to tech support, we concluded the SIM card was bad. I changed out the SIM card, and suddenly it all started working again.
When I returned to Seoul, the UMA service continues to work reliably."
"I was traveling in China for the last month and half and using 8320 to make phone calls back to US quite frequently without any problem. The nice thing is that in China, you got free wifi access quite a lot."