MagicJack : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary

2008-03-20 by Roedy Green ©1997-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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MagicJack

a low cost VOIP service. You buy a converter jack that plugs into a USB port on your computer. Your ordinary phone plugs into that. You can then make free incoming and outgoing calls free anywhere in North America. If you take your laptop to Europe, you can still call anywhere in North America free. The initial cost is $40.00 USD which gets you the jack and one year of calling. Subsequent years are $20.00 USD . This works out to $1.66 USD a month, 15 times cheaper than a similar VOIP service from Shaw cable. It is so cheap, you could justify it just for outgoing long distance and still keep your regular land line. All the usual extra features such as caller-id and call waiting come bundled.

It works on Windows, scheduled also to work on Macs. One of the interesting features is it does not require you to install software. The jack itself contains enough code to automatically trigger the install over the Internet. You can talk to anyone with a phone, not just people with MagicJacks.

They take Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Amex and PayPal.

PC Magazine picked MagicJack as their editor’s choice on 2008-01-17.

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