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and Canada with limited minutes for $11.99 a month. Vonage provides equipment, charges $29.99 a month for an unlimited domestic and international plan, and has various cheaper calling plans including U.S. If you want to make calls outside the U.S., Ooma also offers plan options starting at $9.99 a month or per-minute pay-as-you-go rates. for no cost other than government fees and taxes. You can buy the Ooma Telo device for around $150, which gives you free unlimited calls within the U.S. Its major competition includes Ooma, Vonage and netTALK. It is a phone company as much as it is a provider of a VoIP device.
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As a CLEC, it also gets its phone numbers for free and can resell to other phone service providers. Rather than having to pay other companies to originate calls on their landline networks, YMax/MagicJack only has to pay to terminate calls on others' networks, and can bill other companies when their users place calls to MagicJack users. Its parent company, YMax Communications, founded by Dan Borislow and Don Burns, was created as a phone network and is officially a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), holding CLEC certifications in all 50 U.S. That's where the MagicJack business model comes in handy. But your calls still have to hit a telephone service network's lines at some point.
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Rather than making analog calls like with traditional phone service, you are using hardware and software to convert your call into a digital signal and send it over the Internet. MagicJack provides VoIP service, which means you bypass traditional twisted-pair copper phone lines within your home. The software also saves contacts and call history logs.

You can also set up an e-mail address to have your voicemails delivered to your inbox as audio attachments.

MagicJack's voicemail can be accessed via the software on your computer or by calling your phone number. The service also includes voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, 411 directory assistance, conference calling and E911 service (the VoIP version of traditional 911 emergency service, which sends your address along with the call). You can purchase a year or five years additional service during setup or at any time afterward. You can make international calls with the device, but it requires purchasing pre-paid minutes. You can also call other MagicJack users for free anywhere in the world. This holds true even if you are using the MagicJack abroad.
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If you turn off your computer or it goes to sleep, you can still get voicemail, and call forwarding will still work.Īs of fall 2013, your MagicJack Plus purchase comes with six months of service, which includes unlimited calls to numbers in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. This version requires that your computer stay on and awake constantly to make and receive calls. You can even dispense with the physical phone and use the MagicJack soft-phone (software phone) to dial numbers via a virtual keypad on your screen and talk directly via your computer's speaker and microphone or an attached headset.
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Once setup and registration are complete, you plug a corded or cordless phone into the phone jack and you should be ready to make and receive calls. To use the original MagicJack, plug the device into your computer's USB port and it automatically installs software on your computer. The newer MagicJack Plus has both of those plus an Ethernet port, and it incorporates its own motherboard, removing the need for a constant computer connection. The original has a USB connector and a standard RJ11 phone jack. Both the original MagicJack and the newer MagicJack Plus are analog telephone adapters (ATAs), roughly the size of a matchbox, that allow you to make VoIP phone calls over your Internet connection.

MagicJack was invented by Dan Borislow and launched in late 2007.
