Comments on: magicJack Hijacks My Free Conference Calls to 218-339-2500! http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/ Empower. Challenge. Advance. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Vincent http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-38973 Vincent Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:11 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-38973 I ordered Nettalk.com on Friday 2/26/10. They told me 7 to 10 days to get order. I thought they were kidding. I thought for sure it will come in 3 to 5 days, next week Tuesday or Wednesday. I had to wait for the following week. Got Nettalk on Monday 3/8/2010. So it was 6 business days. Came via USPS so don't expect FedEx or UPS. Is this how they keep cost down. Good for them. Consumer has to balance immediate satisfaction versus price. Opened box and chose not to read instructions. Seem basic enough. Connect supplied CAT5 cable from Nettalk to wireless router (I use wireless router). Connect telephone to Nettalk box. Connect supplied power cable to Nettalk box. Green light lit and orange light flashed. Got dial tone and called my cell phone using the area code and 7 digit number. Got a recording that said I needed to dial the number and enter the # sign. I did that and got the same information. Kept trying this for 5 minutes. So I read instructions, the only instructions on the outside of box. Still no luck. Decided to go to Nettalk website and learn what I needed to do. After 10 minutes reading FAQ's, I see I have to dial a 1 + area code + 7 digit number. I tried this and it works. Yippee. So what is my phone number for my net talk? It is a 012 number. I go back to website and register my information so that E911 can find me, I change the number to an available number for my area code. Cool feature that I did not try is that one can release a phone number and get a new phone number. This is great if one relocates to a different area with a different area code. Used it for fax and conference calls and it works great. So fare so good. I ordered Nettalk.com on Friday 2/26/10. They told me 7 to 10 days to get order. I thought they were kidding. I thought for sure it will come in 3 to 5 days, next week Tuesday or Wednesday. I had to wait for the following week. Got Nettalk on Monday 3/8/2010. So it was 6 business days. Came via USPS so don’t expect FedEx or UPS. Is this how they keep cost down. Good for them. Consumer has to balance immediate satisfaction versus price.

Opened box and chose not to read instructions. Seem basic enough. Connect supplied CAT5 cable from Nettalk to wireless router (I use wireless router). Connect telephone to Nettalk box. Connect supplied power cable to Nettalk box. Green light lit and orange light flashed. Got dial tone and called my cell phone using the area code and 7 digit number. Got a recording that said I needed to dial the number and enter the # sign. I did that and got the same information. Kept trying this for 5 minutes. So I read instructions, the only instructions on the outside of box. Still no luck. Decided to go to Nettalk website and learn what I needed to do. After 10 minutes reading FAQ’s, I see I have to dial a 1 + area code + 7 digit number. I tried this and it works. Yippee. So what is my phone number for my net talk? It is a 012 number. I go back to website and register my information so that E911 can find me, I change the number to an available number for my area code. Cool feature that I did not try is that one can release a phone number and get a new phone number. This is great if one relocates to a different area with a different area code.

Used it for fax and conference calls and it works great.

So fare so good.

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]]> By: Phillip http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-38658 Phillip Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:11:33 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-38658 Does anyone have any information concerning the security of the MJ conference site or any of the other free conference sites? Does anyone have any information concerning the security of the MJ conference site or any of the other free conference sites?

]]> By: Rijkstra http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-36188 Rijkstra Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:50:31 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-36188 I too purchased Magic Jack for conference calls to 916-233-0500. I can find a lot of companies using that number, but not the host. Fortunately, I found this blog before my 30 days is up. To replace it I'm considering NetTalk which has far less negative vibes on the net. It's about the same size as the Magic Jack but will plug into your router or PC. I too purchased Magic Jack for conference calls to 916-233-0500. I can find a lot of companies using that number, but not the host. Fortunately, I found this blog before my 30 days is up. To replace it I’m considering NetTalk which has far less negative vibes on the net. It’s about the same size as the Magic Jack but will plug into your router or PC.

]]> By: David http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-34686 David Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:58:34 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-34686 This is BS, I pay for a phone line to use to call whomever I want (non 900 numbers or over sea), whenever I want and now they tell me I can not speek with my family on a conference line that has been set up for years. I am totally unhappy with this. 'It cost money for people to call conference lines', THAT'S WHAT THE $20 A YEAR IS FOR. They should have thought of this before they said unlimited calls to any number in the US. Sincerely, One p****d off customer This is BS, I pay for a phone line to use to call whomever I want (non 900 numbers or over sea), whenever I want and now they tell me I can not speek with my family on a conference line that has been set up for years.

I am totally unhappy with this.

‘It cost money for people to call conference lines’, THAT’S WHAT THE $20 A YEAR IS FOR.

They should have thought of this before they said unlimited calls to any number in the US.

Sincerely,

One p****d off customer

]]> By: Les http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-33716 Les Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:05:20 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-33716 Not conference call related but within the last week I've not been able to call either my AT&T or wife's Verizon cell phones. Had my daughter try it from her MJ and same results. So are the cell carriers blocking it too now??? Reported it to MJ and they stated that they'd have their engineers investigate. Oh well it was nice while it lasted. Not conference call related but within the last week I’ve not been able to call either my AT&T or wife’s Verizon cell phones. Had my daughter try it from her MJ and same results. So are the cell carriers blocking it too now??? Reported it to MJ and they stated that they’d have their engineers investigate. Oh well it was nice while it lasted.

]]> By: Vincent http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-33322 Vincent Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:03:13 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-33322 Have you try faxing yet? I have been having difficulty trying to fax and had to pull out an old old 1970's fax machine to fax. We even got black listed by MJ because we complained. I think there business model is failing and this is there attempt at getting back at their competition. Ideally, if we all asked for our refund and use the other carriers, I wounder what would happen. Have you try faxing yet? I have been having difficulty trying to fax and had to pull out an old old 1970’s fax machine to fax. We even got black listed by MJ because we complained. I think there business model is failing and this is there attempt at getting back at their competition. Ideally, if we all asked for our refund and use the other carriers, I wounder what would happen.

]]> By: Michael http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-33184 Michael Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:38:23 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-33184 I didn't catch if this was covered previously so I apologize in advance... But it looks like Google Voice may block Free Conference Calling sites as well. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=69bd68da019c069c&hl=en http://is.gd/6MouR I didn’t catch if this was covered previously so I apologize in advance…
But it looks like Google Voice may block Free Conference Calling sites as well.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=69bd68da019c069c&hl=en

http://is.gd/6MouR

]]> By: Bill http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-33150 Bill Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:46:06 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-33150 Here's the REAL problem: Due to a SNAFU in telecommunications law some telephone companies may charge a termination fee (they charge everyone that calls one of their numbers a fee to coinnect to their customer). A number of these small companies have upped their termination fee that they charge the incoming caller's provider. A number of these small companies have either started their own "free" service for conference calls or even advice and astrology type calls and a number of "free" conference call companies have contracted with the the smaller CLEC providers to obtain a portion of that fee. So essentially your call from an AT&T land line gets charged by ACME Rural Telephone Company a CLEC FEE of say $.25 for each AT&T call ending in ACME's service area. Recently some firms pretending to be a CLEC, but really being just a large private WAN designed to gather CLEC fees from major carriers have raised their rates from $0.001/call like a normal CLEC charges to perhaps $0.25/minute. My landline carrier is a CLEC. any "outside" call made to any number "owned" by Greenhills Telephone Company is charged a fee. Even if you are just calling Grandma down the road with your AT%T cell phone. Here’s the REAL problem:

Due to a SNAFU in telecommunications law some telephone companies may charge a termination fee (they charge everyone that calls one of their numbers a fee to coinnect to their customer). A number of these small companies have upped their termination fee that they charge the incoming caller’s provider. A number of these small companies have either started their own “free” service for conference calls or even advice and astrology type calls and a number of “free” conference call companies have contracted with the the smaller CLEC providers to obtain a portion of that fee. So essentially your call from an AT&T land line gets charged by ACME Rural Telephone Company a CLEC FEE of say $.25 for each AT&T call ending in ACME’s service area. Recently some firms pretending to be a CLEC, but really being just a large private WAN designed to gather CLEC fees from major carriers have raised their rates from $0.001/call like a normal CLEC charges to perhaps $0.25/minute.

My landline carrier is a CLEC. any “outside” call made to any number “owned” by Greenhills Telephone Company is charged a fee. Even if you are just calling Grandma down the road with your AT%T cell phone.

]]> By: Tanna http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/comment-page-2/#comment-33142 Tanna Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:47:50 +0000 http://rickyspears.com/blog/2009/08/magicjack-hijacks-my-free-conference-calls-to-218-339-2500/#comment-33142 Ellen: You go, girl! I don't know if I mentioned -- after submitting a complaint online to the FCC, I received a letter in the mail from them saying that my problem was the domain of the FTC. Well, yeah, but it's the FCC's problem too. Ellen: You go, girl!

I don’t know if I mentioned — after submitting a complaint online to the FCC, I received a letter in the mail from them saying that my problem was the domain of the FTC. Well, yeah, but it’s the FCC’s problem too.

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