Pros:
No Start-Up Fees, No Contracts, No Cancellation Fees. Packet8 provides all the hardware you will need, including their unique, patented, “All-In-One” voice and video phone with most plans. Packet8 is one of the few providers that offer broadband video phone as a standard feature in their plans! Packet8 also offers mobile VoIP plans which can reduce your international mobile calling costs by 90%. Call reliability and quality are extremely high due to Packet8’s commitment to innovative, cutting edge technology platforms.

Business
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Pros:
All of the above, in addition to a wide range of business plans, ranging from very inexpensive business VoIP plans for small or home-office businesses, to very flexible, scalable, diverse & feature rich plans for enterprise level telecommunications solutions. Large corporations and call shops will find every thing they need, including VoIP fax solutions. They offer a “pay as you grow” approach to business VoIP services, so that you can accommodate the needs of your business as it grows, without over paying for features and functionality you may not need when starting out.

Cons: Although their services are very competitively priced, they are not “rock-bottom” for VoIP services. However, when selecting Packet8 as your provider, you do not run the risk of frequent dropped calls and poor sound quality which exists with the cheaper VoIP service providers.

Number Portability? Yes.

Magic Jack Review

Magic Jack is an exceptional value for the cost, and a recent PC Magazine Editor’s Choice winner. This amazing little invention is essentially a VoIP gateway and ATA all built into a device which is about the size of a box of Tic Tacs (i.e. very small) which plugs into your computer’s USB port. Any standard telephone (analog or digital) can then plug into the MagicJack, and immediately have full featured VoIP calling service.

Currently, MagicJack.com is offering a free 30 day trial, just in case you have any skepticism about quality of services or features. Beyond the first month free, you pay only $39.99 for the ENTIRE YEAR of service. That is, they send you the Magic Jack device, you plug that in to any broadband connected PC or Laptop (or Mac) and your done – you have free calling for the year. And the great part is, when the time comes to renew, the yearly cost is only $19.99.

If you do the math, even when compared to a low cost unlimited VoIP calling plan at $19.99 per month, you will be saving roughly $200 per year, and perhaps double that figure when compared to standard POTS (non-voip) calling plans.

…And more

Magic Jack Service Quality

Of the VoIP phone services that we have reviewed here at IPCompare.com, Magic Jack offers one of the very best (if not the best) sound quality, clarity, and reliability available on the market today. In researching the company’s history, we came to understand that the MagicJack infrastructure was designed and built like a traditional POTS phone company. This resulted in MagicJack having more and better connectivity to landline call routing within their network. The net result is, they offer the flexibility and savings of VoIP phone service, but with more robust carrier capacity and thus higher quality overall than typical VoIP providers.

Why wait? With the free, no-risk trial, you might as well give MagicJack a whirl: magicjack.com