Ok, magic jack does the "phone number" as a matter of setup, Skype requires as you say, accessories to do it. A selling aspect of magic jack is that you can take it anywhere, plug into any computer, and vuala, you have a connection using the pre-assigned phone number anywhere in the world. If you set up your magic jack in Los Angeles, with an L.A. number, you can take it to Madrid and use it as a Los Angeles phone line calling anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, for free, and people can call you via that Los Angeles number similarly and you accept their calls for free. That's what sold me.
Curtis Delzer At 10:48 AM 5/27/2008, you wrote: >Curtis, thanks, but we just aren't connecting on this. I understand the >physical differences of Magic Jack and Skype. What I want to know are the >functional differences. Magic jack isn't magical, it is just using your >phone as the dialer, microphone, and speaker, but is still a VOIP system >like Skype. Skype has accessories that are phone handsets so physically >the systems can be made to be pretty similar. They are both VOIP systems. >So is there a reason to use one over the other? > >Apparently, Skype has the ability for you to have a phone number that >people can call from a regular land line, or that you can use to call >people on a land line. Magic Jack does this as well. So, which is more >economical? > >Now that I am interested and doing research, a lot of folks are saying >that there are better systems than Skype. Systems that use the SIP >protocol and not a proprietary protocol like Skype uses. Grand Central >appears to be a leader in this market. > >-- >Blue skies. >Dan Rossi >Carnegie Mellon University. >E-Mail:<mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel:(412) 268-9081 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
