[dangrossman]

Those replies were wrong. He purchased a tablet directly from Google; there is no phone company involved. The hotspot isn't being made non-functional, it simply isn't there to turn on at all. That's something controlled by the stock Android image Google installs at the factory, not by any carrier. Two seconds with Google will show plenty of threads talking about the surprising lack of built-in tethering on this device, unlike the Nexus phones.

[ronzensci]

Thanks dangrossman. I wish someone from Google would read this and chose to explain why did they do this. And if there is a way to fix this.