Magic Jack

I wouldn't be in too much of a hurry. Magicjack doesn't have a sustainable business model so as soon as they burn through the investor money they will either have to turn the lights out or charge what other services charge.

Reply to
George
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Please provide the cite for that.

Reply to
Dave Bugg

Google MJ shows 1,350,000 results. Here is a poll.

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John Jones

Of course people who responded to the poll are happy because majicjack is still running and they get to make cheap calls. I didn't claim anything different.

Reply to
George

No cite, I am sure you know things about whatever business you might be in. Anyone who knows the workings of VoIP knows what the overhead is and that they don't have a sustainable business model. BTW, there is nothing technologically magical about magicjack. They require you to use that silly energy wasting key which means you need to keep a computer running all of the time. Behind the scenes they are just slightly different than standard SIP.

Reply to
George

As I thought.

Yes, I do.

The overhead is what the business makes it.; from the little I've read, this company has chosen to ratio its overhead to the customer base... to grow only as it needs to. I've seen no evidence -- huge national prime time TV ads as an example -- to contradict this. They had a soft launch with no big "grand-opening" kick-off, which is a real key to fine-tuning how well a business responds to customer growth.

Exactly WHY the company is probably going to remain healthy. The technology is simple and straight-forward and cheap.

I don't know what you mean by "key".

For $20.00 per year vs Vonage at $26.00 per month, that's no big deal. Besides, I don't HAVE to keep the computer on all the time if I don't need to use the landline..... and I don't. As with a large number of the population, I have a cell phone that I can use if I simply must make a call between 11pm and 7am. Prior to magicjack, I would turn off the landline at night anyway.

How so?

I remember similar criticisms leveled at Amazon regarding the sustainability of its business model; I disagreed then with the naysayers then, too.

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Dave Bugg

George wrote in news:54qdnasb549g- qTVnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

If you wanna hear the phone ring you do. I don't care if I ever hear the ring. I just wanna call out. Don't care about anyone calling in. My friends can call my cell.

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Noahbuddy

Except one of the two MJ's I have *does* have a 212 area code, as chosen by me,

3 weeks ago when I got it.

The other has a 919 area code, again chosen by me. The 919 was NOT available when I got the first MJ.

"HeyBub" wrote:

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spam.inthemorning

3 weeks ago

when I got the

If you bought 2 then that says a little for the product. I may give it a try.

Do you know if you can get Atlanta? 770/404/678 and a few more

The biggest tip I have read time and time again is disable the firewall before installing.

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metspitzer

metspitzer wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Here is the area code link:

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TD

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