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magicJack Announces VoIP for your Cell Phone

magicJack, the company that brought out the plug and play VoIP USB device that lets you plug in and use a household phone for no hassle free VoIP to US landline calls, have been hard at work to create a new device that works using your mobile phone instead.

The device is basically a USB miniature mobile base station (a femtocell) that uses your PC's broadband connection to make VoIP calls. Once your phone is paired with the magicJack device, all calls are routed through it and you won't pay anything to your mobile carrier to make/receive calls through the magicJack. It's unclear at this stage if your existing mobile number would work while using the magicJack, but at a flat rate of $20/year to make unlimited US calls (with the first year free), the potential for saving on calls is huge.

The magicJack femtocell will work with mobile phones from potentially any carrier and you may even use an old GSM cell phone without any paid service plans with a carrier. Not only can people connect to their own magicJack device but they can also connect to other femtocell-enabled magicJacks at friends’ houses and businesses. All the user has to do is come within eight feet of the magicJack one time to register the connection and then talk away within a range of a 3000 square foot house.

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Posted by | Sat, Jan 09, 2010 - 01:28 PM