Thanks a lot. Yet I find it hard to follow part of your typical american logic - and mind you, this type of logic has long been past its best-before date.
You see, before America came over us for real, starting around 2000, and senselessly supported by our clue- and spineless 'elite', we used to have professional technology, with regard to mobile phone (external antenna!), mobile internet access, or even video (for early adopters like me). You can find this laid out in more details at
http://pro-mobile-internet.net/ ff (lots of photos and videos).
So, most of all: GSM (2G) and the following generations (all devised in Europe) were made as globally mobile subsystems of ISDN, thus you could use the same appliances as on ISDN, provided there was an air interface (= mobile phone). A notebook used over the air would thus be a matter of course. Nobody ever thought of a 'smartphone', and quite frankly: For most people, they are at best useless - probably rather harmful.
Back to GSM: Along came the know-it-all americans accompanied by their pretence, supported through Hollywood hypnosis spread by them, and due to our consequently paralysed 'elite', we lost all our quality devices virtually overnight. Because you know, if America decides that henceforth only police & co are supposed to have pro equipment, then also the rest of the world must follow suit - no? Also check
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering#United_States in this context.
So I don't see why you would bother mentioning lacking hotspots or WLAN? This is completely irrelevant for anyone with a professional attitude, as he will connect his notebook to the mobile phone thus has it all there. If I am in a region with free WLAN, I will put a remote antenna on the back shelf and run its USB lead down to the notebook, such that I can switch between these two modes. And why oh why would I want a hotspot in my car? I am happy with my private mobile internet access, wired or wireless, and have no intention whatsoever of sharing it.
As you lot used to have mounted carphones connected to external antennas (just as we, although we were more advanced) until the end of the 90s, you seem to have lost the plot around that time. Your society keeps on coming up with improvements, which after some time in this restless, even manic 'ever-better' cycle look more like disimprovements, or even outright dumbed down. Thus it seems you suffer from a kind of 'innovation' OCD, and those few who may see it are too timid to speak out - talking about the 'land of the free' and its 'relaxed' society. Couldn't you at least contain this virus, such that we avoid more pandemic effects? I think the vast majority of the world would prefer not to become lemmings to the american robots.