It is like the Phillips VoIP841 in that it connects to a router and hence is on 24/7 and your computer can be off or you don’t need a computer like MagicJack. If you want to buy a computer for thousands of dollars and let it run 24/7 so you can make cheap calls that’s fine but I wouldn’t do it.

The Ge RCA Thomson 28310EE1 can also conference in landline and Skype lines! With Skype you can also get a Skype IN or VOIP number so normal phones can you call also. (The most cost effective way to use Skype is to get a subscription and to pay for it in 12 month periods – by doing this you also get a discount on a Skype In number – last time I checked it was only $30/yr this way) It can pretty much replace your land line phone if you wanted to. It also is a dual phone so it rings when your land line number is called or your Skype IN number or Skype name. You can also choose how you want to call out – Skype line or land line. For the data sheets and the manual on this phone go to http://www.SkypeMyPbx.com and look in the brochures section. You can also make Skype calls on PBX/Phone system phones by bringing Skype lines via the Actiontec VoSKY Exchange Skype Gateways.

By doing this you get the best of both worlds. Skype’s low rates and the many features of a PBX/Phone system like basic things like transferring a call to another in office phone, Automated Attendant, PBX Voice Mail, Call Que Ability, Music on Hold, Multi Line Hunt Group, etc. A great small business Phone system is the Avaya Partner ACS phone system (see http://www.AvayaPartnerACS.com for more information). Regardless of the PBX/Phone system you have the Skype lines can be added to your PBX by connecting to trunk/line, station/extension, SIP Trunk or T1/E1 Ports. This is done by Actiontec VoSKY Exchange Skype Gateways. For more information on this please go to http://www.SkypeMyPbx.com.

Feel free to contact me (Kelly Petry) at 863-614-1900 or Skype me at TelephonemanOfAmerica with any questions you may have.

This is only sort-of true. You can call most landlines for that price, but expect to pay ten times as much or more to call a cell phone, due to Europe’s unfortunate and patently unfair “caller pays” policy.

This means that the caller pays for the cell phone minutes of the person receiving the call. For the UK it is 25 cents a minute. And because many people in Europe now have cell-phone only, you actually pay quite high rates to call them, even when you’re in the same country.

The way around is is to talk PC-to-PC (for free), or have them call your cell phone from Skype. They will then pay the price of a regular landline call to the US.

It has lots of bad reviews (and a few good ones).

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/voip/magicjack.aspx

I think you’d be better off getting a USB phone such as the Philips 080 and using Skype.

With all that bravoo about magicjack, Skype and Vonage, how would I get a DSL
line to connect to the Internet?