said by tshirt:said by aaronwt:I have MagicJAck and pay $20 for the entire year. It sounds just like when I had my landline with FIOS only I'm saving almost $500 a year. Plus no taxes.
Well, sort of.
with magicJack, you are are paying your BroadBand provider (Verizon, in your case) for the access point.
I'm sure all the telco's would be much cheaper in the voice market, if they didn't have the huge overhead of maintaining a local/long distance network (local termanation for non-customer calls are a particularly big drain).
As the telco's transition to pure IP voice service, I think you'll see the Broadband price rise to cover the network cost, and voice service drop closer to full service VoIP providers (vonage, etc.)
I am paying FIOS anyway for my 50/20 connection. Even when I had my landline I had the 30/5 first and then the 50/20 INternet. So I'm not paying any extra for that.
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