Cell phones in Negril

[MissBlue]

first, it has to be an unlocked phone. most USA phones are not unlocked - they are 'locked into' the service; i.e. they only work with the phone company it was bought from. It is possible to get unlocked phones on E-bay - but there's no guarantee that it will work in JA (even my Digicel phone from Trinidad does not work on the JA Digicel network, although you'd think it would).

it also has to be a quad-band phone that operates with the GSM (global) network, and of course it also it has to be a make & model of phone that uses a "SIM" chip.

Although it's certainly possible to have a phone from here that will work (if you can get the code to 'unlock' it that is), overall I've found it much easier to just get one there - it eliminates all the tasks & brainwork, and then there's no doubt that it will work on their networks. (plus it's the least amount of work.)

and - even if you bring a phone from home to use there, you would still have to go into a phone store to buy a SIM card to put into the phone - so either way it still means a trip to the phone store when you get there; there's no real savings on money, time or energy.