BeAliv

BeAliv is the new competing phone company in the Bahamas. They are going head to head with the entrenched BTC - Bahamas Tel.

They are trying hard with some great deals for the Bahamas. BTC charges $1.37 a minute for calls to or from the states. That really adds up fast. I had a problem with TWC Road Runner not delivering emails from my credit card companies and I had a 12 minute call with Capital One on their international toll free number and it cost me $15 from BTC.

BeAliv has packages of minutes and Data e.g. Liberty 50 plan is 500 minutes talk, unlimited text, and 5GB of data for $50 a month -- no contract. The 500 minutes can be used to call USA and Canada at no premium. I went to their main hub in Marsh Harbour last week and tried to get my Iphone 5S converted to their network but it didn't work -- boo whoo. Well today I'm walking in Hopetown singing Happy Doo Dah Day and thinking I've been such a good boy I deserve another Vernon's Key lime Pie. So I'm walking there and I come across 3 young ladies looking very nice and friendly and one says "Good Morning Sir -- want to buy a phone?" I said what? They said they were with BeAliv and were selling phone packages. I told them about my experience in Marsh and one says well I can sell you the least expensive phone for $65 and it has the Liberty 50 package for free! WOW that is like getting the phone for $15. When I tried to convert my Iphone the SIM card alone was $16. I asked a lot of questions and then decided to try it. They signed me up writing the deal on a fence post and another assembling the new phone in her lap and it worked. I asked to pay with a credit card but they said cash only -- I told her just leave me enough for a Key Lime Pie. They thought that was funny but I did get my Key Lime Pie.

Well the phone works GREAT. I made my first call to the states to talk to Jim Thompson and it only cost me 15 minutes which was the duration of the call. Still got 485 minutes left but if Karen calls one of here sisters that will be gone.

We went to Lynyard Cay today -- sea glass capitol of the Abacos. We had a late start since Karen takes her librarian duties seriously at the Hopetown Library -- she works (for free) 10am - noon on Wednesdays. I figured we would have Lynyard Cay to ourselves tonight but there are 14 boats here tonight. I suspect several will leave for Eluthera tomorrow but we are just here hunting glass then back to Hopetown in a couple of days. This place is beautiful. Very rugged and remote and good protection from NE-E winds. My BeAliv phone data works very well here..

We hunted some glass late this afternoon and Karen found some but nothing Primo yet. The beach had been walked thoroughly earlier so maybe early tomorrow morning she can find the mother lode.