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Old Dec 19, 2010 | 6:16 pm
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Originally Posted by TWA Fan 1
Also, North American 800 numbers are not free on Skype if you are calling from outside the North American zone.
Originally Posted by gregsachs
This hasn't been true in my experience.
Me neither.
Originally Posted by TWA Fan 1
In any case, the main advantage of Magic Jack is not the money, but the stability, especially if you need to be on with CO for an extended period of time...on Skype you're virtually guaranteed to get cut off.
I've done multi-hour calls and had no problems. And the underlying technology is more or less the same. I doubt that one is generally more reliable than the other.
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