When you go to Jamaica, do you sign up for the international calling plan?
We have the Vonage mobile app but I can only find info about calling home, not making calls in Jamaica.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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When you go to Jamaica, do you sign up for the international calling plan?
We have the Vonage mobile app but I can only find info about calling home, not making calls in Jamaica.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
For us it was just easier to get transportation to and from Negril with a driver that offers a phone for your stay (Michael's On Time Taxi, among others). We put about $15 on the phone and called our grand daughter everyday for 2 weeks and never used up all the minutes.
Regards,
Bob
We just went to digicell and bought the cheapest phone they had which was about $30 and i think $10 for a sim card and then just put 200 ja worth of minutes at a time on it. Was great to have to contact friends and drivers when we were there and used it a few times to call home. Now all we have to do is buy a new sim card every year when we go and put some more time on it. Figured that was our cheapest option and we also didnt have to worry about bringing our expensive cell phones and worrying about loosing them or damaging them.
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Originally Posted by Rumrunner
If you use Linston for transfers we'd be happy to lend you a phone
Cap
Was in Jamaica last year with my Verizon iphone. We did what rjonsun aka Bob did, had our driver give us 2 phones for the week and bought minutes from Digi Cell.
Tried the VZW international plan when Donna was there last month so we could compare. Still more expensive than a cheap local phone or sim for our iPhones. Which reminds me, I need to top them off.
I used to buy a cheap digicel phone but find it easier just to text per messanger using wifi when I needed "kid time".....and if I felt the need to hear their voice, I just kept call to a couple of minutes and to tell them.."will you please answer your texts".......they're are 25 and 27.....lolol....
Cap, I didn't know about the loaner phone from Linston! We'll have to ask him about that next trip. Ha... Twice now we have brought my phone down and used the Verizon International plan. I try not to keep my phone on every day, because they will charge you $10.00 per 24 hour period once you turn the phone on. Turn it off... fine... but turn it on again and another 24 hour period starts. It's great as long as you don't need to turn your phone on everyday- or if you don't mind spending an extra 10 bucks a day to keep it on.
We take our Verizon iPhones down and use a local sim for one of them and turn data off for the other. The Verizon iPhones are international phones and it will always be cheaper to get a local sim compared to their international plan except perhaps in Canada where I think it's $2/day.
We are verizon customers and just use the international plan as it is $10/24 hours and it allows me to use my text/talk/data plan. We don't use every day so it only averages 40 per week. The nice thing is it reminds you when your 24 hours will be expiring and the next charge/24 hour period doesn't start until you use it again.
You can still use your phone with wifi just put in airplane mode
Thanks, everyone!
Jamaica is the best country to kick start the new year.come and enjoy your new year holiday on the sea side . watch the fireworks as the clock strikes 12 .contact Michaels on time taxi for more information
I'm paying close attention. As a Canadian, I just have not had it all work yet financially. I bought the plan last trip from Bell ; 100 minutes locally, i think 100 something or other for data … and not sure what the texts were ($60 for 30 days; I'm only 2 weeks). In Canada, I bought the plan to text (just text) 500 for $5.00 a month. It's a charm. Does not work in reverse. Hence this new plan … I could hardly connect on wifi anywhere … 4 or 5 days into my trip, I had used 90% of my usage.
So … I can get Digicel I suppose … but can I not bring an unlocked phone and get a sim card and buy time?
Best choice we ever made was switching to T-Mobile. Unlimited data on the island. Unlimited Texting, and I think calls are 20 cents a minute back to the states. No special plan to select. Works seamlessly.
Hey Flip,Quote:
Originally Posted by Flipadelphia26
Do you get 3G in Negril? Which Ja. provider does T Mobile use?
Thanks
Cap
It picks up Digicel and Lime, I believe. Whatever i strongest.Quote:
Originally Posted by captaind
And yes, it was 3G. The data speed was the same as when I was using my unlocked iphone on Digicel with their data plan.
Also you get a free hour of GOGO inflight internet and you get free messaging on your GOGO supported flights. T-Mobile is really the best, as long as you live in in relative civilization here in the states.
Question on the Verizon plan, I know it is $10 per day "if you use it". Does that include simply leaving the phone turned on or do you actually have to take/place a call to be charged? I would hate to pay $10 per day to simply keep the phone turned on.
I am also a T-Mobile user - love it. My husband's old phone was 3g and worked better in JA than it did in the US.
Verizon also offers a $40 monthly plan for Jamaica instead of the $10 per day option.
See link here for different options:
https://www.verizonwireless.com/solu...tional-travel/
if you top up your sim card on line with small dollar amounts every other month, say 200j, you will not need to get a new sim card when you arrive and you will have minutes on your phone to use from your top ups; saves you the hassle of new sim and then folks know your old number as well. International minutes in JA cost you perhaps $15 usd for 660 minutes talk time so that too is an excellent program for those needing to call back to home land; note however that these international minutes only last 30 days then they are gone so use or lose in 30 days unlike the local minute top ups which stay on the sim as long as you don't let the sim go dormant via passing on periodic top ups [I have been told every 60 days but we have gone 90 without issue].