I would have to agree, even though I haven't tried the hotspot solution yet, that it would be counter intuative for VW to insist on users taking out an internet data subscrition with Cubic. I do have a dual SIM phone with a data package but have never checked if the car is seeing my data SIM. I thought (probably wrongly), that having a Bluetooth connection would be all that I needed but I guess that I need to go the extra mile and make sure that the car is seeing the data connection or something like that. Never had this sort of thing before with my previous Mercs or Volvo but VW seem to do so many things differently. I will try again the next time I have the time to fiddle with it or, as it is going in to the Dealers later this month for a software update, leave it for them to sort it out. Irrespective of all that it makes perfect sense that as long as an internet connection is available and seen by the car (and an Alexa registration is valid), it shouldn't matter who is the data provider.