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Anyone ever done conference calling with MJ? Any difficulties?Limitations?
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I got back from a trip to Brazil and used MagicJack:
1) Attached to suppliers personal laptop, plugged a cheapir phone and it worked just fine. 2) Went to hotel, used agents laptop and HOTEL room phone...and worked perfectly. Dad lives in India and has a magicjack so we have an ELP number in India. Great technology...wonder how long it will last. |
I now have two of them, and use them ofte and rarely have any difficulties, I just renewed the first one, and got the 5 year 59.99 deal, so we are talking about a dollar a month, it really cannot be beat, looking at some forums I am flabbergasted at some of the service expectations some have of MJ.
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Originally Posted by thebug622
(Post 12450093)
Anyone ever done conference calling with MJ? Any difficulties?Limitations?
http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/...-218-339-2500/ http://clarkhoward.com/liveweb/shown...9/09/02/16566/ |
MagicJack for your cell phone
I wonder what the fallout of this will be...
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/us_tec...show_magicjack The company behind the magicJack, the cheap Internet phone gadget that's been heavily promoted on TV, has made a new version of the device that allows free calls from cell phones in the home, in a fashion that's sure to draw protest from cellular carriers. The new magicJack uses, without permission, radio frequencies for which cellular carriers have paid billions of dollars for exclusive licenses. YMax Corp., which is based in Palm Beach, Fla., said this week at the International Consumers Electronics Show that it plans to start selling the device in about four months for $40, the same price as the original magicJack. As before, it will provide free calls to the U.S. and Canada for one year. The device is, in essence, a very small cellular tower for the home. The size of a deck of cards, it plugs into a PC, which needs a broadband Internet connection. The device then detects when a compatible cell phone comes within 8 feet, and places a call to it. The user enters a short code on the phone. The phone is then linked to the magicJack, and as long as it's within range (YMax said it will cover a 3,000-square-foot home) magicJack routes the call itself, over the Internet, rather than going through the carrier's cellular tower. No minutes are subtracted from the user's account with the carrier. Any extra fees for international calls are subtracted from the user's account with magicJack, not the carrier. |
When you are logged on the magic jack femto cell, what happens if somebody calls your mobile number?
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Originally Posted by Dubai Stu
(Post 13154005)
When you are logged on the magic jack femto cell, what happens if somebody calls your mobile number?
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Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 13154029)
Since it looks like it'll be roaming on the Magicjack, I suspect calls to the original number will all go to voicemail. Of course, Magicjack could also have smart voicemail set up on the service. Nobody has actually seen the new product in action, so time will tell how it works...
Now, this would be a real interesting integration with Google Voice. It would also be interesting if Magicjack can get licensed as an MVNO on one of the networks. |
Originally Posted by Dubai Stu
(Post 13154132)
It wouldn't be fun using it outside the US with my ATT SIM in it. Am I roaming on Magijack or Megafon? It sounds like it would be easy to make a huge mistake.
Now, this would be a real interesting integration with Google Voice. It would also be interesting if Magicjack can get licensed as an MVNO on one of the networks. I love Magicjack -- I take one whenever I travel overseas, and also use one for my primary home phone service. I have a femtocell from Verizon that I use at home because I live in a weak signal area. Unfortunately, the two femtocells cannot, obviously, co-exist. |
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Originally Posted by Dubai Stu
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MVNO are basically mobile network resellers. Do a search on who the underlying providor is, if it is a verizon or att or sprint, great. If it is a t-mo or other, it might have coverage issues.
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Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 13154029)
Since it looks like it'll be roaming on the Magicjack, I suspect calls to the original number will all go to voicemail. Of course, Magicjack could also have smart voicemail set up on the service. Nobody has actually seen the new product in action, so time will tell how it works...
Originally Posted by Dubai Stu
(Post 13154132)
It wouldn't be fun using it outside the US with my ATT SIM in it. Am I roaming on Magijack or Megafon? It sounds like it would be easy to make a huge mistake.
Now, this would be a real interesting integration with Google Voice. It would also be interesting if Magicjack can get licensed as an MVNO on one of the networks. Of course, all that may change once these things hit the market but I imagine that MagicJack is not working with any carrier and is thus going to make quite a few of them unhappy, especially the big cry baby that is AT&T. |
Originally Posted by gobluetwo
(Post 13143883)
I'm mindful of the potential radiation exposure from using cellphones too much. If I'm going to be at a static location with broadband & Magic Jack in the first place, I might as well use a cordless phone with better speaker phone capabilities or a wired phone and avoid the radiation + battery drain on my cellphone. Sounds kind of redundant to the magic jack itself. Also, since a lot of people are migrating to smart phones, for internet access on the go, plus doing texting, I don't see this as that big of a threat to the phone companies. |
Originally Posted by UALOneKPlus
(Post 13166022)
Why would anyone use a cellphone rather than a USB phone or the softphone on the PC in this case?
I'm mindful of the potential radiation exposure from using cellphones too much. If I'm going to be at a static location with broadband & Magic Jack in the first place, I might as well use a cordless phone with better speaker phone capabilities or a wired phone and avoid the radiation + battery drain on my cellphone. Sounds kind of redundant to the magic jack itself. Also, since a lot of people are migrating to smart phones, for internet access on the go, plus doing texting, I don't see this as that big of a threat to the phone companies. I won't derail the thread with how silly cell phone radiation is in reality, but I will note that a lot of my contact and other pertinent information is on my Blackberry, and so it is useful to have it rather than have to pull information out of it and then use a softphone or other physical phone connected to the MagicJack. Call it a convenience factor, I guess. :) |
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