The real usefulness of magicjack is you can register it at the area code in the USA you wish despite being somewhere else ...that way, anyone who calls you using the magic jack phone number from the us in that area code makes a usually free local call and you receive the call in Brazil or wherever you are without further fees at all. If you are in the USA and have family in Brazil who must call you, you can leave them your magic jack and they can call to your USA phone number (for instance, if you visit the USA and get a cheap cell phone at WalMart or 7-11 store with prepaid sim card) for no charge!! I am pretty sure they will not ship abroad. You need a credit card. You simply have it mailed to a friend in the USA who forwards it to you!!
-----Original Message----- From: Marcio [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 12:46 AM To: rleesimon Subject: RE: MagicJack: a VoIP question Will look at it Marcio -----Original Message----- >From: rleesimon <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 2, 2010 5:40 PM >To: 'Marcio' <[email protected]> >Cc: 'Computer Guys Discussion List' <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: MagicJack: a VoIP question > >Messages from phonepower.com come as .wav file in email...also stored online >on pwd protected site with usage, etc. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Marcio [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:44 PM >Subject: Re: MagicJack: a VoIP question > >Yes, Fred I get the messages by e-mail and open them with Nero. I also cancall >my number at MagicJack and listen to the messages and erase them. > >Marcio > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Fred Holmes <[email protected]> >>Sent: Jan 1, 2010 8:59 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [CGUYS] MagicJack: a VoIP question >> >>Yes and no. If you leave your VOIP (e.g. MagicJack) always at one specific >>premises and register that premises with that telephone number at 911 (there >>is a process for doing this), then you will have reliable 911 service, just >>as landline numbers are registered with 911 (but the registration is done by >>the telephone company). But one of the advantages of MagicJack is that you >>can connect it to your notebook computer wherever you may carry and use it. >>There is no way (except manually) to change the 911 registration at present. >>There may be some way to do a lookup on the i.p. address of your computer, to >>determine where it is actually connected, but such a system hasn't yet (to my >>knowledge) been set up. >> >>If you connect your MagicJack to your notebook computer that is connected to >>the Internet anywhere (e.g., Iraq), calls that you place to the U.S. are >>"free" (no call placement or connection time charges) (unless for some >>reason VOIP packets are somehow killed.) >> >>It's also nice that voice mail messages received on VOIP systems can be sent >>to you by e-mail as .wav file attachments. Nice to be able to keep and file >>them, and not have the message memory fill up and overflow. >> >>Fred Holmes. >> >>At 06:13 PM 1/1/2010, Judy Cosler wrote: >>>does one have reliable 911 with VoIP? >>>thought one needed a landline for reliable, available 911. >>>Pls. help me with this issue! >> >> >>************************************************************************* >>** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >>** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >>************************************************************************* > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
