I Need a Good Voice Over Ip Alternative to Landline?

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Mik James

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I know of magicjack and the adapter is locally available to me in Canada.
I'm basically wondering if there is anything out there these days that might be more competitive than magicjack or might offer a better value?

The other one i've heard of is voipo.

I'm looking to use an everyday phone with voip and I don't want anything that requires a computer like Skype.

I;m also curious whether voip services draw much bandwidth when not making phonecalls?

Thanks in advance :)
 
I use magicjack and like it. Never had any issues with it. If you have to port your number to it, it's 9.99 a year and then I believe 19.95 a year for service. I had Vonage and they kept raising the price so dropped them and went to Magicjack.
 
Depends on what you're looking for.

If you need something for an enterprisey deployment you can tie a free call control system like Asterisk into a wholesale SIP provider like Flowroute ($1.25/mo for DID, $0.009/min), or even use a software phone such as X-Lite if you don't need a physical handset.

There are also solutions like using a unit like this for a standard POTS phone into another call service such as Flowroute or others:
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Teleph...=UTF8&qid=1396280067&sr=1-2&keywords=obi+voip

Consumer grade you could probably get away with most products such as MagicJack.
 
What is the difference between NetTalk and MagicJack besides SMS? I'm seriously considering dropping Comcrap at $55 a month!

Edit-

NetTalk says they have "visual voice mail" Is that all? I can't call my home number and access my voice mail?
 
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You still need internet access for both of them. I do believe there is a phone app for android and Iphone for magic jack.
 
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