02-18-2020, 09:50 AM
Dear Blu phone owner. (ah, what sentence can I type next which will sound informative but would be construed as a personal attack?) YOU don't know what YOU are talking about. The 2 companies might use the same technology but you need a green phone instead of blu because the frequency pairs are different.
You could by a dual band phone, but make sure it also works with a string and a tin can tied on the other end. You know what string is don't YOU? It's the stuff they make bathing suites out of, but look for the type which is "musical", one octive below H.
That ends the somewhat true information AND humerous banter. Kylake promised to buy me a beer next week (he didn't, but I'll be calling him on his blu phone when I get onto the island) and thusly I put him one level above acquantance. ***
I like FLOW because their tower/coverage in one area of Negril is/was better, as well as cheaper talk rates and SIM chip cost.
My experience with their basic pre-paid service is after 3 weeks of a J$200 top off, or 1 week with J$100, you lose the ability to make outgoing calls. However, you have a month to top-up and you get the original unused airtime minutes.
I do not know how long it takes with zero usable balance before they yank your phone number, but it might have been 3 months. One experience was 6 months to recharge before I lost the phone number. The companies are not forthcoming with this.
Things do change. The prepaid "plans" one or the other sell were (past tense) not always cost effective. No details here but one -- a thousand minutes to the USA was J$1200 JD yet I never had a good enough connection to use much of it.
Digicel has a store in Negril but so does FLOW, right across the plaza/street.
***footnote. The adage/saying "friendship is a profession" in Negril is still true. You know, "My good friend I've known for only 3 days wants me to send him money." LOL.
There are so many aspects in this posting, even I don't understand all of them. LOL
You could by a dual band phone, but make sure it also works with a string and a tin can tied on the other end. You know what string is don't YOU? It's the stuff they make bathing suites out of, but look for the type which is "musical", one octive below H.
That ends the somewhat true information AND humerous banter. Kylake promised to buy me a beer next week (he didn't, but I'll be calling him on his blu phone when I get onto the island) and thusly I put him one level above acquantance. ***
I like FLOW because their tower/coverage in one area of Negril is/was better, as well as cheaper talk rates and SIM chip cost.
My experience with their basic pre-paid service is after 3 weeks of a J$200 top off, or 1 week with J$100, you lose the ability to make outgoing calls. However, you have a month to top-up and you get the original unused airtime minutes.
I do not know how long it takes with zero usable balance before they yank your phone number, but it might have been 3 months. One experience was 6 months to recharge before I lost the phone number. The companies are not forthcoming with this.
Things do change. The prepaid "plans" one or the other sell were (past tense) not always cost effective. No details here but one -- a thousand minutes to the USA was J$1200 JD yet I never had a good enough connection to use much of it.
Digicel has a store in Negril but so does FLOW, right across the plaza/street.
***footnote. The adage/saying "friendship is a profession" in Negril is still true. You know, "My good friend I've known for only 3 days wants me to send him money." LOL.
There are so many aspects in this posting, even I don't understand all of them. LOL