harrys - what does the monthly plan cost for such a service? are you saying texting to/from JA and the USA costs nothing extra and all calls both within JA and between JA and USA are .20/min? Do you have to use one of their phones or can you just buy their simm or ? Do the folks you are calling or who call you or text you get wacked with big fees?
The monthly plans start at $50 for one line, $80 for two lines, then $10 more per line up to a maximum of 5 lines, $110. For your $110 you get unlimited domestic (within the USA) talk, text and web on all 5 lines with high speed data access capped at 500mb per line, then it slows down but stays unlimited. While travelling to more than 100 countries including JA, you get unlimited texting within that country and back to the USA as well as basic data (128k) at no additional charge and calls within that country and back to the USA is .20 per minute.Originally Posted by Rastaron
If you need more high speed data, an additional $10 gets you 2.5gb of data (per line) and $20 makes it unlimited while at home, and you can purchase high speed data for your travels as well.
The thing I really like is that you're using your everyday phone number, and don't need a JA number, no need to get another phone, no need to unlock or swap sim cards.
T-Mobile also will now buy out your contracts with other carriers (up to $350 per line) so it's a great time to switch.
(I want to be clear and honest - I work for T-Mobile, but am in no way asking anyone to do business with me.)
We have an old Nokia - basic call and text type. We had it unlocked by the guy upstairs from Digicel across from Scotia bank for about $15. We went down to Digicel, and I think for $32 we got a SIM plus a 1,000 international minutes and a Digicel account. We can top it up on line for about $3 per month the keep the number.
We sent some friends down with it, and a slew of minute and told them to call to their hearts delight anywhere in the world. They did. They barely diminished the minutes since every Digi to Digi call seemed to get you more free minutes!
It is cheaper for me to do this and call my friend in Australia from Jamaica than from Canada! 1,000 INTERNATIONAL minutes for about $12-15?
If you plan to return ("if you plan to return? don't we all? That's like "left over wine" ... Left over wine?)
Go on line to the Digicel website for more info!
Great info to have, We've got an old Iphone 3 here that we will take down and have the guy across from Scotia unlock for us. And too funny - had me worried for a second when you said "left over wine" :-)
also harrys, where you hail from, not a packer fan are you?
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