One other thing.. I believe you will need your passport in hand when you get the Jamaican cellular service at either the "Digicell" or "Lime" store.
One other thing.. I believe you will need your passport in hand when you get the Jamaican cellular service at either the "Digicell" or "Lime" store.
Just an ID will work. Digicel took my US driver's license. I think it was $530j for the SIM and I got a week's worth of data for like $10 US.Originally Posted by frankk
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If you have a Canadian cell phone, that baby is locked. The Government recently put through laws that our carriers can no longer prevent us from unlocking them. Locally in Canada, a carrier will unlock your phone, but it's about $50 to do it. And they don't make it easy to do.
There's a guy upstairs from Digicel, across from the Scotia bank, that will unlock it about for USD10. Just stand outside Digicel, and there's a staircase to your left. He does repairs, too!
You will need a Government issue photo ID to get yourself set up with Digicel and, I would assume Lime (we use Digi) do the same. We pay about USD15 for 1,000 international minutes. Yes, One Thousand minutes. We don't have a data pack. You can use the international minutes locally, you're just using "international", but that's a lot of minutes to use up on a 2 week vacation - and they keep adding minutes on!
If you're a frequent or regular annual visitor to Jamaica, with Digicel (and again, I assume Lime would have a similar programme) you can top up your account on line from home, for about $3 a month thru the year and keep you number active, and have the same one the next time you go down.
We don't bring our phones down. We have a phone we use strictly for Jamaica. It's an old Motorola flip phone our kids got in Europe in 2010. It's fine.
I believe you can get a pretty "no brainer" phone down there for about $30-35.
Remember, Canada is the world leader in exhorbitant cell phone and cell services costs. (Yay, us!) Our government even set up a page on their website telling us we pay too much. You gotta love this country!
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