THREE ...mobile gadgets

Hmmm, would it be possible to ask for a replacement sim, therby having two gadgets with the same phone number?
That's not going to happen quickly as I need to change my banking address with Three, as it seems they only post things to my registered banking address, and of course I am not there either!

My reading of all this : mifi sim gives my internet to all my gadgets, except the phone, ie one or two laptops, my tablet, everything unlimited, except that the phone is limited , I ran out of phone data last month, but that is the first time ever.
I am not sure how the phone gets its connection to the internet, but I think it is independant of the mifi.
Needless to say, I have no desire to use tethering or hot spotting with my phone.

The phone has a limited amount of data, and is essentially on a sim only contract. I know the phone number.

The tablet is the one on a special deal, half price contract for six months, then full price. I think that the tablet and the laptop are on one contract, unlimited, this superceeded the original contract . I discovered the tablet has a telephone facility, but I don't know it's number, yet. I suspect the box the tablet came in, or the sim will show the telephone number of the tablet.
I expect those among you who have been buying all the latest gadgets every year will sigh at my ignorance of these matters, I am not interested in being leading edge, I just want internet and a phone. I bought a tablet as backup to my laptop ,  it seems to work more like a fancy phone than a standard computer, loaded with certain apps and rubbish games.


The phone is on a sim only contract, limited data, unlimited calls.

How complicated you have made things!

For comparrison I have a 3 sim only contract with unlimited tethering, calls and txt in a smartphone. That sits on the fridge mostly and tethered to it are 2x desktop PCs and another (old) smartphone with no sim installed.

So, one monthly contract for 4x devices all connected to the internet through the sim only contract. The phone with that SIM is of course the only one that can make/recieve calls and txt, but all or any of the other devices are connected together for email i.e. one email address that can be used by all 4 devices which all show the same inbox etc. Yes I'm on a boat.

2 years ago, do they do sim only contracts longer than 2 years?

P.s its not your word against theirs, ask for the signed contract it will all be written down.

I don't have that concern. I have no redundancy plan but a replacement sim in the old phone would get me going again, or a new phone and replacement sim on the same ongoing contract.

I wonder how someone could steal your phone if you stay 2m away from everybody? If someone broke into the boat (ha-ha I haven't ever locked it) my son would likely kill them or close to before I could stop him. The phone would be the least of my worries.

I know a couple of extremely inteligent, technically clever guys, neither of whom ever read the bloody manual before trying to use things.  They assume they can fiddle through and to be fair they normally can ...... but on occasion they have come spectacularly and expensively unstuck.

when the "tilt" light comes on ??

All's well that ends well as William Shakespeare might once have said.
New phone arrived, and once I got the back off and the sim card installed it stuttered in to action.
I've lost my phone contacts, but I'm not too bothered.
Situation normal.
UPDATE turns out I have three contracts with Three, spent an hour on chat asking why my phone contract is not 'unlimited calls', they still deny selling me a phone, ever.