As lon as you have the bandwidth to support VoIP, MagicJack works as advertised, in my experience. Greg ______________________ Greg Caulton 233 West Pelham Road Shutesbury, MA 01072 Phone: 413-461-7096 Fax: 320-215-1505 On Jul 12, 2013, at 9:19 AM, <dstevens at tryandfindit.com> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hello All, > > I am also interested in this change... > Has anyone had any experience with > "Magic Jack"..... > Almost sounds to cheap to be good? > > don > > TFI, Inc. > Don Stevens > 159 Patricia Circle > Springfield, MA 01119 > Office: 413.209.8333 > Cell: 860.614.4153 > Email: dstevens at tryandfindIT.com > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] who services keeping landline number, other > than phone companies (verizon, etc.)? > From: Deborah Chandler <debchandler411 at gmail.com> > Date: Fri, July 12, 2013 1:27 am > To: Hidden-Tech Tech <Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> > > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > I am trying ACN's digital phone, will be hooking it up this week, and > can let you know what I think. It connects through the cable internet. > > It includes unlimited local and long distance in the US, plus 70 other > countries, voicemail, caller ID and call waiting, all for $29.99 a > month. Calls to some other places are 20¢ a minute. I can use my > exisitng landline number and will be able to take my number anywhere > in the world. > > Deb > > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Gyepi SAM > <gyepi-hidden-tec at praxis-sw.com> wrote: > > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > > I don't know of the specific provider you are asking about, but > > you can port your landline to any provider. Some may choose not > > to, of course, but that's a policy decision, not a technical one. > > > > Over the past 12 years I've used Verizon, Vonage, Comcast, Verizon (clearly, > > I'm a slow learner), Google Voice and kept the same number. Google voice was > > the most complicated since they only port mobile numbers so I first ported my > > numbers to T-Mobile just long enough to port them to google voice. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > -Gyepi > > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:44:36AM -0400, Jill Connolly wrote: > >> I know there are services for keeping your landline phone number at a much reduced rate than Verizon, etc. charge. > >> > >> Not google-voice, but something else I saw recently... > >> > >> Anyone have a handle on this? > > _______________________________________________ > > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20130712/27dd1a70/attachment.html