We begin our 3rd trip to Negril Feb 10...for two weeks. Its a way to be able to communicate with home without the need to use a hotel supplied computer which are usually very busy. Laptop was bigger and the wifi didn't work in our room so I'm thinging the Ipad is an alternative if i can get a local area sim card to get on the 3G network. We own a small business which we close when on vacation, however we still need to communicate with our server daily... Yah it be nice to forget it all for two weeks but unfortunately we can't. Last year we were able to purchase a sim card for my BB and could call home when needed, was fairly inexpensive and worked great.