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Magic Jack cannot call into a pots line in China? I thought you can call anywhere.

Their infomercials say the U.S. & Canada only. But the way to call overseas would be to send a magic jack to that user. Its the issue of having a gateway to the public switched network that is the limitation. There's really no "Magic" involved.

Hmmm, do I here an echo?

One of the constraints of Magic Jack is that calls must be two hours or less.

Now I hate to reveal that Ed and I are a bunch of gossipy hens, but we were cut off at two hours + two or three seconds in a recent conversation. Can you believe that I actually had to ring him again to finish my thought?

I'm still evaluating Magic Jack, but it seems like a quality product so far. I will say that Ed's voice got choppy when he was downloading "emails with large attachments" (read: porn). Either that, or he was getting all choked up chatting with me.

Unless one has "an ear" for compression artifacts and such, I don't see many users complaining about the call quality.

I was thinking of giving it a try. So I went to their WEB site and searched for and checked the FAQ's to see how you cancel service if you're not satisfied. They don't tell you. That's like signing a contract you can't get out of. If there is a way to cancel service they don't make it easy to find. No thanks.

Bill it will cancel itself after one year. I hadn't used mine for a few months and when I went to use it they had canceled it. Just don't give them a CC to automatically renew with. When I tried it I was lucky to get 2 minutes without being cut off.

Thanks for the info. I just thought it was a little deceiving there was nothing about canceling on their WEB site. Guess I could get one from Wally World so I didn't have to give out a CC.

you can cancel within 30 days here

I bought it with a CC and they didn't auto bill it canceled after a year , I left it off for a few weeks and then renewed

Thanks skip I knew about the 30 day free trial, although they don't say how you get out of it, other than sending it back. I was more worried more about the automatic renewal.