I called the Treehouse to make reservations 876-957-4287 and Verizon charged me almost $12.00 for an 8 minute call. Is it common knowledge to not call 876 numbers?
Verizon removed it after it pitched a fit.
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I called the Treehouse to make reservations 876-957-4287 and Verizon charged me almost $12.00 for an 8 minute call. Is it common knowledge to not call 876 numbers?
Verizon removed it after it pitched a fit.
Verizon cellphone to Ja is really expensive as you've discovered.
A land line from the US is about 16 cents a minute.
Sprint is 2$ a minute...so you got a deal..lol
Do NOT use 876 #s, it's outrageous, look for a 800 # on websites, Bar-B-Barn, I always use their 800 #, no charges!
Us Cellular to Jamaica 50 cents a minute. We use a landline to call too.
So, help me out here. I can get 1000 international calling minutes in Jamaica for about 1200Ja. That works out to about 1.2 cents USD per minute of talk time on our cell in Jamaica to call home. But our USA and Canadian cell carriers are charging as much as $2.00US for 1 minute of talk time. Me thinks the cell companies in the US and Canada are making a lot of money here.
Our american and Canadian cell companies can learn a lot from the little 3rd world island of Jamaica. I believe the term we use here is American (and Canadian) greed.
if you really want to get fleeced --- use your USA/Canadian cell phone in Jamaica
Seveen is right. You can BUY a 45 dollar cellphone and a 1000 J phone card and have a carefree stay with plenty of connection to North America and all
'round town talk for two weeks or more for less than 60 dollars U.S.A. or Canada.
5 dollars a day for folks who are pricing a reach.
plus u always have it for future reaches-new SIM card-600JA$ and away u go
Yes indeed...ATT U-verse is "only" $ .43 per minute. There is a new International Calling Plan, but the reduced rates therein do not include Jamaica.
If you are going to call Jamaica frequently, your wireless carrier might offer an international plan which does include reduced rate calls to Jamaica.
I never use anywhere near the 1000 minutes in the separate calling plan when in Jamaica. So, I top off my JA phone from the US on-line just before we leave for the island and usually get a double minutes bonus from Digicell and I don't bother buying the international minutes while on the island. I just use the local minutes to call home. Don't have to keep track of 2 separate balances that way either.
The bonus minutes have to be used up in a week.
I bought a calling card for my Jamaica calls.
I installed Rebtel on my computer and the app on my phone. You pre-buy credits. Jamaica costs about 16 cents a minute from Canada.
Rebtel is up to .24 a minute
Treehouse Magic Jack Number 305-974-7218 answers in reservationsQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark & Deana
In Canada you can use 10 10 620 before the 1-876 etc number and get the first 15 min for $1....and low cents/min thereafter (it goes onto your regular phone bill) at least with Bell land lines......
Or, once you have a cellphone & sim card, just top it up every 60 days with the last top up just before you reach. When you land the phone will be active and ready to use with credits on board. You can keep your same phone number and no having to buy another SIM. I have a monthly automatic top up set up for about $6 per month so I don't even have to think about it.
There is a lot more to pricing than this. For starters, it is way more expensive to cover a huge land mass like the USA with cell towers, and those costs get passed on to consumers. To build out wireless towers on a small island is way less expensive, especially when you're not trying to cover everywhere and aren't terribly concerned with data speeds. Those basic phones you puchase in JA sure are cheap, they're also 15+ year old technology that is extremely cheap to manufacture.
The other main issue is that when you call from JA to the USA with your USA SIM card, you are using the Jamaican cell phone company to complete the call, and they will bill your carrier (Verizon, AT+T, etc) whatever they can get away with... and then your carrier passes those costs on to you.
I usually get an 'international pack' for voice/text...$50 gets me all I need for 1-2 weeks. It's a bit more than a JA. SIM/minutes (I have an old phone that would work unlocked), but I don't have to worry about carrying two phones for inbound comm.