If you need to have phone contact, you might want to go the route of borrowing up and topping up the minutes. While we were there in Dec/Jan, the digicell store in Negril ran out of sim cards and we got the "check back tomorrow" for a few days running, so we were glad that we had one to use. We did buy a cheap phone this year and signed up for ez top which only requires that 600 JA be put on the phone every 90 days to keep it active, thanks to the info on this board yet again