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Cheap home phone --basic talk at Walmart -anyone using this? Do you like another internet telephony?
Sept 9 2013

Posted on 09/09/2013 12:52:54 PM PDT by dennisw

 

http://www.walmart.com/ip/BasicTalk-Home-Phone-Device/23739626

I am going to dumping my old copper land line. I have looked at magic jack. This new one from Walmart looks good or better

Buy the device for $10. It connects to your router.
$10 per month for phone service in the USA


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To: MomofMarine

We dropped satellite tv in June. 3 months now, haven’t missed it for a moment. well, i do miss nascar. But otherwise, i don’t miss it.


61 posted on 09/09/2013 3:58:13 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Windflier
Nope - not the case here...we'd been month-to-month for years. They tried to claim that I didn't return their boxes and gear until (verified with my sh*t letter to 'em) three weeks after I had.

"Collection" for 79 bucks they said I owed....never did get any comment or apology, but did get acknowledgement by way of a check for the $8.00 they actually owed me.

As I said before FTWC!

62 posted on 09/09/2013 4:27:19 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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To: Windflier

I got Magicjack 3 years ago and it works great. $19.95 a YEAR for phone serve with unlimited minutes and no long distance charges in US.

I also cancelled my cell phone when contract ended and got a TracPhone with 1200 minutes and a year to use them for less than $100.

Cut out a lot of waste of $$$$


63 posted on 09/09/2013 4:27:30 PM PDT by packrat35 (Admit it! We are almost ready to be called a police state!)
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To: packrat35
I got Magic jack 3 years ago and it works great. $19.95 a YEAR for phone serve with unlimited minutes and no long distance charges in US.

We tried Magic Jack several years ago when we lived in a rural area. Didn't work for us because we were on a limited bandwidth internet connection via satellite. The sound quality and signal strength were just terrible.

Now that we're back in the city, it would probably work. We're on a solid copper line now, so I expect the performance would be a lot better.

64 posted on 09/09/2013 4:42:04 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Cementjungle
"I took the box and a cheapo phone with me to Costa Rica for a month, and had my two lines in my hotel room as if I was back home."

Did people calling you from your home town have to pay anything to call you?

65 posted on 09/09/2013 5:35:41 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: dennisw

Hey, thanks for posting this. We’re paying $40/month through our internet provider for phone service. I wanted to look into Magic Jack but never got around to it. This lit the fire.


66 posted on 09/09/2013 6:39:48 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

It was just a local call for them (assuming they were in Los Angeles for one of the lines, or Seattle for line 2). I could call anywhere in the US for free from either line.


67 posted on 09/09/2013 6:58:54 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Chuzzlewit

Wife and I use Net 10. $85/month for unlimited voice, text and data. Uses AT&T towers, and have better connectivity here in FL than previously with Verizon for about 1/2 the price.


68 posted on 09/09/2013 8:04:46 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: dennisw

ping


69 posted on 09/12/2013 7:27:24 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

ping


70 posted on 09/14/2013 5:18:15 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Slyfox

“If the power does go out again we’ll go to the library or Starbucks to power up our cell phones.”

As “victims” of frequent power outages in our rural area, we bought a few of the emergency radios that you crank to charge the battery. (A couple can be charged by solar as well by cranking.) All of them have USB ports for charging cell phones, and they actually do a pretty good job.


71 posted on 09/14/2013 5:47:37 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("A hyphenated American is not an American at all." Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: VerySadAmerican

“I wish I could get internet only and no cable.”

Is Comcast in your area? We dropped our Comcast cable but kept their internet.


72 posted on 09/14/2013 5:49:20 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("A hyphenated American is not an American at all." Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: babygene

Thanks for that number porting trick.... I am leaning towards obi. Go you think it is worth getting one of the more expensive obi models?


73 posted on 09/14/2013 5:49:23 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: VerySadAmerican
I wish I could get internet only and no cable.

That is exactly what we're doing. We told them in no uncertain terms we did NOT want any TV package at all, just internet. They set us right up. But every now and then, someone comes around to try the hard sell on us to get us to get the cable TV.

Magic jack for us is $40/year versus $45 or so every month for the land line after taxes, fees, other fees, user fees, Algore fees, and some fees on top of a couple of other taxes and fees.

74 posted on 09/14/2013 5:56:56 PM PDT by Big Giant Head
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To: dennisw

Your cell phone is your backup in a power outage. Plus if using a laptop, a desktop battery backup unit will keep the modem, telephony device and laptop powered for a long time. At least an 1-3 hours I would guess.
Laptop battery would also be supplying juice
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Our cell phone tower were rendered incapable during last long outage. Land line worked, nothing else. No power for 11 days.


75 posted on 09/14/2013 6:00:09 PM PDT by Chickensoup (...We didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: MayflowerMadam; Big Giant Head

Comcast is my problem. I can drop cable and get internet only and only save $10 a month.

BGH, are you saying majic jack offers internet without an outside phone line?


76 posted on 09/14/2013 8:12:43 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: dennisw

“Do you think it is worth getting one of the more expensive obi models?”

It probably is... But I didn’t check them all out. I am very happy with what I have though.


77 posted on 09/14/2013 9:54:49 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Correct.


78 posted on 09/15/2013 4:00:59 AM PDT by Big Giant Head
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To: babygene

Got my obie today from Newegg. Have not connected it, but will do so tomorrow. It came with printed instructions on using google voice with it which is very nice

Yes it works with other services besides g-voice


79 posted on 10/14/2013 11:28:37 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

“Got my obie today from Newegg. Have not connected it, but will do so tomorrow. It came with printed instructions on using google voice with it which is very nice

Yes it works with other services besides g-voice”

So far I’m happy with mine... you can make half of a car payment for what you pay on cable for a “bundle” deal.


80 posted on 10/14/2013 11:46:03 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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