I looked at the MagicJack website and it looks good to me. For $40 a year you can't beat it.

I'm going to think about it for a while and order the free trial today after I do a little bit more research on it. It will save me about $300 a year.

I googled it and found this.....

Doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad product - you just have to pay a price for not paying for traditional phone service.

http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Reviews...t_Quite_Ready/



http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/14...etphone-s.html

ahh... yes, I did more searches too and read more reviews about 50/50 {good/bad} - so I just sent a cancel my order to them and said I'll consider it later when it's more stable.
so I'll see what they say to that.

They say you don't have to get a phone bill again. However (not including that 1st $40) what do you pay?

I think it was a yearly fee of 19.95.

That's another thing is I really didn't care for, the layout of their website - you have to look up everything in the FAQs and the answers are very brief with no real explanation. And the cost /fee info isn't on the main page and you can't see it until you fill in your contact info.

I did get the email reply that they agreed to my request and canceled my order, so that was nice and got the reply back just a few hours after sending it.

I haven't looked into it at all yet. I only see or hear of it on TV ads. I have always been leery of things on TV ads. No matter their claims. But that's just me. The original skeptic.

I tried MagicJack perhaps a year ago, and returned it for a refund within 30 days, for only three reasons:
1. the only (my choice of available area code/exchange) provided phone #
was long distance from my physical location,
2. I had to have my computer on (and running MagicJack software) at all times, when I wanted full phone service. (Only Voicemail when not running their software).
3. Everytime I booted my computer, the revised software was Downloaded/installed (great the first time, but why do
it again when it had NOT again changed?).

MagicJack (almost always) had fine sound quality.

I recommend you WAIT (perhaps 3 Months) for
"MagicJack Plus."
See short article @ PCWorld website(respected magazine),
"PCFree MagicJack Coming Soon", Jan-08-2011,
or just Google on "MagicJack Plus".

"MagicJack Plus", alleged to be coming by April 2011;
$50 for device & 1st year VoIP service ($20 each additional year). Do NOT need to run a pc to have full phone service!
(I feel this makes it fully competitive with SkyPE & Vonage, but much cheaper re United States phone service!)
Just connect included device to AC-outlet,
set up WiFi/4G-adapter/Ethernet connection,
and connect a regular telephone to its RJ-11 port.
(I believe I can perhaps live with
its having a non-local phone #,
and its doing one download
each time I plug it into an AC-outlet.)

I have magicjack and just love not getting bills in the mail. I have had it for a couple years it is 19.95 a yr. I know it has some quirks but all in all its great I wouldn't go back to regular phone and 100.00 phone bills for nothing. I can put up with a little when the benefits are so great.