Start calling**
Customer service for your Barbados DigiFlex prepaid SIM card is available 24 hr./day by dialing 100 at any time from your Barbados cellular phone
*You will need to snap out the thumbnail sized Barbados SIM card along the perforated edge of its holder and then insert the Barbados SIM card into your international cell phone with the gold contacts of the Barbados SIM card facing the metal contacts of your international cellular phone.
^ ^ Your phone will prompt you for a 4-digit PIN code, which on the welcome letter affixed to your Barbados SIM card. You will be prompted for PIN1. The PUK is only required to unblock you phone if you enter in a PIN code incorrectly. Follow your cell phone manual instructions to correctly use the PUK to unblock your phone.
**When calling overseas from the United States to your Barbados cellular phone number callers will need to dial 1(same country code as the US) followed your Barbados cell phone number. To call abroad from your Barbados cell phone simply dial the ‘+’ key (on your cell phone) followed by the country code and phone number. To call UStronics you would dial +12128404333.
Adding Talk Time
Your Barbados Digiflex SIM card has an initial airtime credit of BRD$20 ($10) which includes BRD$10 preloaded on the SIM and a BRD$10 airtime voucher. Additional credit is available through the purchase of airtime or FLEXcards vouchers, as they are referred to locally (not another SIM card), in Barbados. FLEXcards airtime vouchers are available in the following denominations:
BRD$75 ($26.20)
Simply scratch off the grey protective layer to reveal your voucher code. When punched into the keypad of your international cell phone the voucher code will credit your SIM card the respective SEK denomination you purchased.
Airtime vouchers are available locally, in Barbados, at local convenience stores, Digicel shops and authorized dealers.
Remember: Do not purchase another SIM card when your airtime credit is depleted! Your only need a recharge voucher! And your incoming calls are always free even when you run out of airtime.
Barbados Domestic Rates
Domestic rates are per minute for outgoing calls within Barbados from your prepaid Digicel Barbados SIM card while you are in Barbados. All incoming calls regardless of where they originate are FREE. All calls to access voicemail are free as well.
| Service |
Peak Rate |
Off Peak Rate |
Weekend Rate |
SMS/Email |
| Digicel to Digicel |
BRD.50/$.25 |
BRD.45/$.24 |
BRD.30/$.15 |
BRD.20/$.10 |
| All other calls |
BRD.70/$.35 |
BRD.65/$.33 |
BRD.60/$.30 |
Peak: Monday-Friday 6am-8pm Off Peak: Monday-Friday 8pm-6am. Weekend: Friday Midnight-Sunday Midnight
Barbados International Rates
Making International calls from your world cell phone has never been easier with your prepaid Barbados SIM card. All rates are per minute for international outgoing calls from your Barbados card within Barbados.
| Calls To |
Peak |
Off-Peak |
Weekend |
|
Antigua & Barbuda, Cayman, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Monsterrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, T&T
|
BRD1.00/$.50 |
BRD0.55/$.27 |
BRD0.40/$.20 |
| Rest of the Caribbean and Belize |
BRD2.00/$1.00 |
BRD1.25/$.63 |
BRD0.85/$.43 |
| USA , Canada , UK , Ireland and the Rest of the World |
BRD2.40/$1.20 |
BRD2.00/$1.00 |
BRD1.15/$.63 |
Peak: Monday-Friday 6am-8pm Off Peak: Monday-Friday 8pm-6am. Weekend: Friday Midnight-Sunday Midnight
Email
Your cellular phone can receive e-mail from any other e-mail address Your e-mail address for your prepaid SIM card will be your last 7-digits of your phone number @digitextbb.com (ex. 2601234@digitextbb.com) and all incoming e-mails are free. Outgoing e-mails with your Barbados prepaid SIM are are charged as an SMS at BRD$.20 ($.10)/msg.
Service Life
Your SIM card is initially valid for 30-days when you arrive in Barbados. Everytime you add airtime you have an additional 30-day. If you do not recharge your account within 2-months your Mobile phone number will be recycled and any remaining airtime credit on your Barbados SIM card will be forfeit. To get connected again you will be required to purchase another SIM card. The validity period begins the day you arrive in Barbados.
Coverage
Keeping in touch while in Barbados can be very frustrating and expensive experience without an international cell phone and Barbados SIM card.
Sometimes a payphone takes coins (But how many is anybody’s guess!!!), other times a proprietary calling card and still others only a credit card will do with accompanying instructions that would take a week to understand.
A Barbados cellular phone rental can significantly cut down on the frustration of calling home while abroad but the airtime rates would bankrupt all but the thickest of wallets. Airtime rates for a Barbados cell phone rental can typically start at $1.50 and may be as high as $2+/minute.
Think you go a deal on your world phone and plan on doing some international roaming? With international roaming charges the airtime rate you will pay is out of this world.
Why pay $1.99/minute for the same call that you can have for FREE with a Barbados SIM card? Be available for pennies/minute and not dollars.
