talk to your digital phone company first, many (such as verizon) will NOT WORK HERE. I know Nokia works here (b/c phone company can change to right simcard once you get to BZ) but not many others work from what I've heard. Your provider should be able to advise, but don't let them convince you to invest in one of the ridiculously expensive phones they might try to sell you to bring with you and use here. Once I got here I retired my useless verizon and bought a decent nokia in san pedro for $225 BZ which included a $10 digicell credit. I was also able to defer my verizon contract for first three months b/c I'm out of country so be sure to look into that as well. good luck!