Internet dongle damaged? - No issues - Put the sim into your mobile

I recently stumped into this issue with my Airtel 4g dongle device being damaged.
It was quite an emergency for me as I had couple of video conferences to host.

The Airtel officials kindly asked me to place a request to replace the device and the time to tend to this replacement request was based on the available stocks of the device.
Sorry I neither had the time nor wished to waste effort driving an hour to visit the showroom.
So this is what I tried.

1. I detached the sim card from the data card. 
2. Put it into the spare windows phone that I had. 
3. You receive internet settings from your carrier, and would need to save it. That's it.

The nice part is you can enable a tethering hotspot on your mobile and your datacard sim can be connected by other devices.
I tried to connect it with my laptop, other mobiles and my Android TV.

So I do not think I would like to replace my dongle as of now ;)

Now-a-days mobile vendors who sell internet dongles charge you separately if you wish to convert your device into a wifi hotspot.

With the above mechanism, I could convert my existing data card sim into a wifi hotspot just by inserting the sim into the mobile.

Hope this helps you too.