Gadgets customs clearing is quite expensive in Northern Cyprus. How to stay by the phone if you don't want to spend money?

Locals share their life hacks. 

For instance, you can officially buy a mini modem at Turkcell and a registered SIM card for it at a reasonable price. Then you can distribute the Internet from it to your smartphone. The only disadvantage is the fast battery consumption of the modem. However, you can always recharge it indoors or in a car. 

Another longer-running, and a little bit more expensive way is to buy the cheapest Android-based smartphone with a local SIM card. You can easily use it for Internet distributing to your favorite expensive gadget as well. Such a smartphone in the Internet distribution mode holds a charge longer than a mini modem.