Magic Jack

Posted On Wednesday, May 9 at by JoCoWash

I know I hate to be without a phone to communicate with others on a daily basis. These days, not many people are without a phone of some sort, except for my roommate who made a smart move and decided to save money and eliminate his bills completely-including his cell phone. Most of us have a cell phone, so ther really isn't a need to have a landline. In my roommates circumstance, this is unfortunate because he has no way of getting a phone call or making one.

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 givas a person a number to recieve a call. You'll have to pay more to make calls. Mony 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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