Hotspot With A Non Verizon Sim?

I am currently traveling outside of the US. I have purchased a pre-paid SIM from the local provider. When I try and hotspot my Galaxy S4 checks my subscription status. Not surprisingly it can't get a response from Verizon.
Effectively this means I can't use this functionality. Is there any workaround to make hotpot and I haven't tried but I assume tethering too work?

Hello slerner. Hope your trip is going well so far! With regards to using the hotspot feature off of your phone, it does work off of your Verizon Wireless service account and features. If you are using a non-Verizon Wireless SIM, it is not utilizing or working off of your account, so that feature will not be available. Sorry about that.
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I bought the Samsung III a few years ago after being assured by several Verizon staff that it was fully capable, but then discovered this was ONLY true for voice and SMS, not email. Verizon blocked the APN access so no data plans worked. The purchased international SIM cards would work on other SIIIs (as the Samsung store overseas demonstrated), just not Verizon's version. I even tried using an older unlocked, deactivated global Verizon Blackberry, but to the surprise of the RIM technicians in Canada, the local Sim card still tried to activate through Verizon and thus failed to work.
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