People, save yourself some money and go buy one of these. They are the bomb. I thought they were to good to be true, but they really are great and for the price there is no better phone service than this. **** not sure if an advertisement or not, edited just in case ***** FC

NeedKarma

Skype is free with no proprietary device to buy. And it's license has no crap like this:
magicJack - Terms of Service

CowboyFan1

To make an absurd comment like that, there is noway you own one. I do and love it. I bet you can't run skype through you home phone lines and use it like a regular phone line can you? No need to answer. I know NOT! Go to the site and buy one and get the facts before spouting off next time. You can't beat this setup Magicjack has. It's the next big thing, Just watch!

Curlyben

Needkarma, does make a valid point here, but I suppose it depends to what extent you are relying on VoIP for your communications.
Skype and a number of other services can be used in exactly the same way without upfront costs or specialist hardware requirements.

CowboyFan1

I will admit that I don't know a lot about skype, but magicjack has been called the skype killer by many. I don't think you guys are understanding what this thing does. It works just like vonage would except for no monthly fee. It's the only phone I have in my house other than my cell phone. You should get educated on this device. You will not regret it, I promise!

P.S. You can actually take this device with you out of the country and make free calls back to the USA.

NeedKarma

Due diligence, here's a discussion forum about the service/hardware: magicjack.com users forum - dslreports.com

Not sure why it's being pimped here like the next greatest MLM.

CowboyFan1

First of all, I could care less if you keep paying a phone bill every month or not, but I don't care to and I think there are plenty out there like me. I am just giving these people with issues with the service they have now an alternative, so if you don't like this idea or don't care to buy one, maybe you should just sit back and let people that care to save money do so.

"It's better to be thought a fool, than to open thy mouth and remove all doubt" I think this quote could apply here!

Curlyben

CowboyFan, I think you are reading way to much into our comments and getting rather heated.

All we are doing is pointing out other alternatives and some of the obvious failings of this device.
We welcome open discussion, but not at the expense of common courtesy.

CowboyFan1

There is no way you can point out a flaw that I'm not having since I am the only one in this disscussion that actually owns a Magicjack. If you would like to purchase one and then add your opinion then I would treat these comments with more respect. I am not upset in the least and have said before if you are happy paying monthly, please continue to do so, but I have had this divice since last July and am extremely happy with it.

TO THOSE NOT HAPPY PAYING MONTHLY, THIS PRODUCT IS AND DOES EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS IT WILL.

NeedKarma

The only advice I am giving to the readers of this thread is to do their due diligence in researching this. A computer user should always do this for any software such as this that is always running, serves ads and requires a hardware device to be installed continuously for the device to function.