Vonage's broadband telephone connection service provides reasonably priced long distance that never, ever fucking works. The best part about having your phone attached to your Internet is that whenever you lose the Internet, your land line goes down too. This is great news for people who enjoy burning through cell phone minutes while they wait for a rude, mouth-breathing ex-convict at AT&T to take them off hold. In fact, if you want to be angry pretty much every time you (try to) use the phone, I can't recommend a better combination than Vonage and AT&T.RATING: 4%
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I'll never give those lowlifes at AT&T/Southwestern Bell another cent as long as I live. I paid $120 for six years of service. That's 6 years of all the $2/month calling I can physically make in the U.S. and Canada and I have a local Texas phone number. So, while I live in South Korea, my friends and family can call me without dialing and paying to call an international number.
The best part is I got rid of my cellular service and am saving about $1,000 a year now. Magicjack is Awesome with a capital A.
boneage
That should be a new Magicjack ad campaign: "Don't give those fuckers at AT&T another dime--get Magicjack™!"
I don't mean to be a buzzkill here, but um: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/magicjacks-eula-says.html
Although to be fair, forced arbitration clauses are pretty standard (and enforceable).
So far, I've used the Magicjack for well over two years without any problems and for a cost of less than $40 which included the price of the gadget. And the only ads I've seen are for purchasing additional years worth of service for even less than I paid the first time for current users (the ad is on a small portion of the telephone popup whenever you receive or make calls).
I read countless accounts of how great it was (mostly by satisfied users like myself) and countless others by running scared employees of AT&T/Southwestern Bell/etc. and those people who are technology inept (can't even get their computers to even turn on) before I finally bought it.
For a whopping $40 (purchase of the magicjack and a year of service--$100 for the magicjack and 6 years of service), it's a great alternative to those land line phones hassles about long distance and worrying about waiting to 9pm to make those calls, or just to have it for traveling abroad as your number is local to where you live in the U.S. or Canada.
John "Magicjack" Dijon
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