Island phone

[LLAP]

LLAP, I'm curious about what you mentioned about not needing to topup online to keep the SIM active. I'm traveling to Jamaica again in 3 months, so wanted to keep it up and running for my next trip. Why do you remove the SIM card between visits?

My old phone would only hold one sim so when I returned home I put my US sim back in. The phone I have now holds two sim cards and I can select which one the phone uses so I do not have to take one out and put the other in anymore.
As far as keeping it active. After we're done using the Lime sim I do nothing to keep it active. I use the online etop a few weeks before we return and we have been good to go for the past 3 years. Each top up has been just short of one year from our last use of the Lime Jamaica sim.

[Melody]

As far as keeping it active. After we're done using the Lime sim I do nothing to keep it active. I use the online etop a few weeks before we return and we have been good to go for the past 3 years. Each top up has been just short of one year from our last use of the Lime Jamaica sim.

Well, that's interesting.....thought you had to either keep adding minutes every month or so, or else it wouldn't remain active and you'd have to buy a new SIM when returning to Jamaica. Were the remaining minutes from your last trip still there when you put your SIM back in to prepare for your new trip? If so, I won't need to topup online at all before leaving for my next trip, everything should be good to go, with plenty of minutes remaining. Or, is it just the minutes that expire, but not the SIM?

update: Went on Lime's website and found out that if your account doesn't have a balance, you have 60 days before it is deactivated. If it hasn't been used, but has a balance, all you need to do is topup within 365 days and you're good to go. I've emailed for confirmation/clarification, as when your minutes expire, you no longer have a balance, right!?
But if as LLAP says, your SIM stays active for 365 days, without having to topup every month or two, that is an awesome perk for us travellers!