Magic Jack - making phone call history
Today, a large percentage of people have internet over phone so many companies are taking full advantage of this by offering services like Skype and Vonage. There are also free alternatives like AimPhoneline which gives a person a number to recieve a call. You’ll have to pay more to make calls. Many others are offering services like these that are slowly killing landline phone companies. There is a new kid on the block though. This new service blows everyone out of the water.
Magic Jack is a new service that gives you a number, voicemail, call waiting, caller ID, etc. and a nifty little phone jack. Despite the name, the phone jack is not magical, but it gets close. It is a USB phone jack that plugs into a computer and then the person plugs a phone into the other end allowing them to make or recieve calls for free. All you have to do is buy the phone jack for $39.00. That is not bad for a phone service. There aren’t any other costs. As the website says, “Never pay a phone bill again!”
If you use a service called Free 411 to find local, business, and residential numbers for free, then you’ll hear all about it. When dialing the service to get a number, I was curious and asked for more detail about Magic Jack and I was transffered to a CSR pushing hard for me to get a Magic Jack. I told her no thank you and she quickly responded “why?” I told her I have a cell phone and just was not interested right now. She brought to light a great use of what a person could do with this Magic Jack such as going out of town and instead of using the costly hotel phones, a person could just plug in the Magic Jack.
I see this service further knocking down the hopes and dreams left for all the landline phone companies out there like BellSouth. Of course, it all depends. Magic Jack could be horrible quality. If you look at the comments, there are mixed reviews, but I’d like to say, most people who own and use Magic Jack are genreally happy.
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I just picked one up. In canada. It works EXCELLENT! There was only one hitch to making it work. Make sure if you can’t make it work, go to the “Magic Fix” - on the main web site, and chances are if you are missing a G.711 audio codec, your PC doesn’t have it. We downloaded ACE codec pak (for free) and unchecked everything EXCEPT G.711, rebooted, and it works EXCELLENT!
does it work in the UK.?
Well, here’s an update.
I ordered one myself as I figured if I was posting it I might as well try it.
It works. It isn’t always reliable ( I have had people try to call and they got a “disconnected or unavailable recorded alert). It can be worse than a cell at times but hell…it IS only 12 bucks a year!
I’m keeping it as a back-up line for the house for the money I say this is worth it.
The BAD NEWS-the pop up on the desktop will drive you nuts if you work on your PC for a living like I do. I contacted Tech Support to see if there is a way to disable the thing from constantly bugging me by popping up (it pops every time you dial, get a call, even if you pick up the receiver and put it back down) I told them I wasn’t a call center and didn’t need to monitor everyone making calls…they said this is “just the way it is”.
There are a few fixes that need to be made to make MJ better but for 12 dollars who am I to complain.
To answer the above I have no idea if it works in the UK…hit the web site ans ask.
I have purchased a year’s service.
I updated and ran a “fix” and it has worked great since.
The cable company can kiss my a….why pay a $100 deposit and pay 25 bucks a month when I can call anywhere for 12 dollars a year? not too bad I say?