Talkmobile, iPhone 4S and tethering

Hi all,
Using iPhone 4S with a talkmobile sim, which works fine except for tethering.
The iPhone thinks it's on the Vodafone network (which it is, as TalkMobile use their network) and therefore places restrictions to tethering on the handset.
I'm unable to manually change the carrier to TalkMobile, and lift this restriction. Everything else works fine.
Anyone have any ideas? Before anyone suggests it, I don't want to jailbreak

I used to use my 3 sim, which worked fine, I didn't get a coded SMS for that. I certainly didn't ask for one, so unless it did it 'behind the scenes' or something when activating the carrier settings.
I had assumed that Personal Hotspot required such activation from some networks, but not others, which would be down to the carrier..
If I can't change it to TalkMobile, or get them to send said SMS (which they know nothing about) then my options are basically change my phone or change my carrier!
Bit rubbish

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