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I saw an ad for MagicJack on TV, a USB VoIP dongle with a $20:year
unlimited calling subscription, and looked into it. I am in no way
affiliated with MagicJack, except that I saw the ad and was curious. It
was introduced at the TED conference last April, and was buggy through
last Summer. But it's been around a year now, has a budget for
mass-market advertising.

Anyone know any more details? How do they offer $20:year, when most
VoIP competitors charge at least $15-35:month? Are they using Asterisk
for infrastructure - any thing more than maybe just voicemail?

If this isn't a scam, or a bubble loss-leader that will collapse under
a $20:year subscription, is it instead a new force pushing down prices,
and pushing ahead the mass marketization of Internet voice?


I tried to send this message directly to the list WED afternoon, but
once again the Digium filter is silently rejecting my posts. Digium
really should fix that. And soon. These lists are badly broken by it.


On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:00 -0500, asterisk-biz-request@lists.digium.com
wrote:

[trixter at 0xdecafbad.com]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 04:29 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:

[mroberts1818 at gmail.com]

I've heard he offsets some of his costs by recip comp revenue

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter@0xdecafbad.com>

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:42:44
To:Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] MagicJack



On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 04:29 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:

[nk3569 at yahoo.com]

[trixter at 0xdecafbad.com]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 04:29 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:

[jared at compuwizz.net]

From what I remember reading on DSLReports Forums and looking around, they do use sip and there are ways to extract the credentials if anything uses SIP.

There are some unofficial forums that have popped up if you google for them.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter@0xdecafbad.com (trixter@0xdecafbad.com)> wrote:

[AFShin9 at gmail.com]

I have bought this device for $39, it includes the Jack + one year subscription.

I called any US Numbers and also Canada Cell and Land line in Ontario, All worked fine.

There is no SPAM on their Program, it is just their own advertising that says if you want to call to UK, GErmany and .... You have to pay for the extra fee of about 2 cents per min for landlines!

As I checked it, their are using Asterisk. Also You will get a DID for Free.

Seysan




On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Jared Geiger <jared@compuwizz.net (jared@compuwizz.net)> wrote:

[stotaro at totarotechn...]

If it sounds too good to be true... Sunrocket had a more sustainable
business model and a few commercials too. I guess if the device can
be used for something else if/when they fail, it's not such a bad
thing.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Seysan <AFShin9@gmail.com> wrote:

[nigel.dennis at sympat...]

Be very careful if you intend to purchase one of these dongles. I purchased
1, got notification that I have purchased 2 that will be ready for shipping
soon but a discount can be given if I make it an initial purchase of 3.
Keep in mind that I only purchased 1. I also noticed that they have a
special if you purchase 5. Hmmm not sure if I fall for the offer of 3 what
is going to happen. Will I then get notified that I have purchased 5 ???.
Ps: still have not received the initial 1 that was bumped up to 2. There is
a delay for Canadian orders.

[trixter at 0xdecafbad.com]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 19:44 -0400, Jared Geiger wrote:

[nk3569 at yahoo.com]

--- Seysan <AFShin9@gmail.com> wrote:

[trixter at 0xdecafbad.com]

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 00:43 -0700, Nitzan Kon wrote:

[jack at jackearl.com]

I am under the understand that this is a skype product, it might not be sold by skype but it is on there back bone, so I would suggest that is you are use to using a voip phone on skype then this will be no different except they have this adapter so the average person can use there existing home phone and plug in to the network or the voip network, so one trying to make a lot of money, wish i came up with the little box, but the jury is not in yet, when the wrong people get duke out of there money, then the courts will have the final say as to what the technology really is, and I am not boshing you.

Jack Earl

1 800 559 1959 Office
1 866 568 9648 Fax
1 412 589 5389 Cell

Http://www.jackearl.com

[m345 at netvision.net.il]

I read somewhere that they have CLEC status in most of the states, so they maybe able to terminate calls for almost nothing.
But even if termination cost you nothing, it is still very hard to make money on $20 a year. Even if your costs are zero...

Nitzan Kon wrote:

[mdiehl at diehlnet.com]

On Friday 21 March 2008 12:29:38 pm Nitzan Kon wrote: