Free Cell Phone Calls

Posted Friday, January 8, 2010, at 2:00 PM

This could be the greatest day in the history of cellular communication. Today the company that created the MagicJack, which provides Voice Over IP phone calls for $40 a year, announced that they are releasing a similar product in four months that will allow you to make free phone calls from your cell phone. The device, which acts like a mini cell phone tower plugged into your computer, will sell for $40 and provide the user with one year of free phone calls. My advice, buy this as soon as it comes on the market, because you can bet that cell phone companies are going to do everything they can to prevent it from being sold legally in the United States.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/us_tec_gad...

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magaz...

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I would just be happy if I could use my cell from my house, 5 miles from a Verizon tower, without buying a $200+ router than runs on the internet.

I will certainly watch this. Thanks.

-- Posted by stevemills on Fri, Jan 8, 2010, at 4:28 PM

I have to agree with Nathan on this one ... teleco's are terrible at using any means necessary to keep the market cornered. When Vonage first came on the scene, teleco's would block the port they were using .. so as a customer your call would be placed, it would route through the net .. but once it got to the teleco exchange for the final trip to the recipient ... access denied.

I imagine they will do everything they can to block the packets from this nifty little gadget!

-- Posted by Average_Joe on Fri, Jan 8, 2010, at 10:04 PM

I have got to get me one of these!

-- Posted by Tim Lokey on Mon, Jan 11, 2010, at 4:04 AM

but if they make illegal in us per say then those who are using it..won't they be able to trace it or something or is set to where it caint be traced???

-- Posted by ipledgeallegiancetotheCSA on Wed, Jan 13, 2010, at 12:54 AM

When they make it illegal, the FCC will simply ban the sale of the product. An example of this type of ban would be 802.11 Wireless signal boosters. Netgear created an inline signal booster that you could install with a large outdoor directional antenna that was said to boost the range of a wireless signal up to 70 miles. That lasted about three months and the FCC banned it and you could no longer buy one. Sure would be nice to have though.

-- Posted by nathan.evans on Wed, Jan 13, 2010, at 8:01 AM

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