Lowering their plans to unlimited is nice but I rather prefer VM adding an option for extended coverage even if the cost is a little bit more.
You're taking the company's choice way too personally. Maybe you spend too much time in areas that VM has little interest in servicing?
I'm sure the company has run cost-benefit analyses to determine whether the additional customers gained with roaming justify the cost of adding it. Apparently the gain in subs doesn't justify the cost and the number of subs who've indicated they are willing to pay for roaming is too small.
Now one can only hope that at&t will answer all this by adding unlimited long distance, caller ID and call waiting for landine customers for only an additional $15 or so a month. My landline is ~$22/month for unlimited local outbound calls, unlimited free inbound calls, but no calling features whatsoever.
Dude, you need a Magic-Jack. $19.95 a year, unlimited local and long distance calling, call waiting, voicemail, caller ID. Frankly, anyone with a home phone who doesn't use Magic-Jack (if they have broadband internet anyways) is wasting they're money. I see adverts for Vonage and laugh!
If you want to use your home phone, yes. It connects to a USB port and it has a phone jack in the back of it. If you have a headset/mic or just a mic you can use just the computer for calls instead of using the device attached to the usb port.
If you want to use your home phone, yes. It connects to a USB port and it has a phone jack in the back of it. If you have a headset/mic or just a mic you can use just the computer for calls instead of using the device attached to the usb port.
Time for the next stupid question...
Does the computer have to be turned on? I'm asking because I'm wondering if the Magic Jack relies on the computer to work, or just on the internet connection? If the internet is turned on but the computer is turned off, would it still work? What if the computer was turned on, but nobody was logged into Windows?
I guess I don't know the right people, because I can't get away with anything around here... Rest assured, though, I will never maliciously properly quote anybody again!
i think if nobody was logged on then it would still work because your always connected to the interwebz right?
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Just guessing that computer would have to be on if MJ plugs into USB port. No power, no workee.
How did we get off into this anyway?
There is another one called Ooma that does not require computer to be even connected. You wire it ideally between upstream ethernet connection and first thing in house like a router. No good for dialup -- has to be cable or DSL. I have one but it doesn't work well because my upstream is a 900 mHz radio link.
Does the computer have to be turned on? I'm asking because I'm wondering if the Magic Jack relies on the computer to work, or just on the internet connection? If the internet is turned on but the computer is turned off, would it still work? What if the computer was turned on, but nobody was logged into Windows?
Yes the computer has to be on, yes you have to be logged into windows. The Magic Jack loads a program onto your computer allowing you to make and receive calls on the PC. There's no way to plug the Magic Jack into the internet with the PC.
You're taking the company's choice way too personally. Maybe you spend too much time in areas that VM has little interest in servicing?
I'm sure the company has run cost-benefit analyses to determine whether the additional customers gained with roaming justify the cost of adding it. Apparently the gain in subs doesn't justify the cost and the number of subs who've indicated they are willing to pay for roaming is too small.
There you go again assuming people who are not willing to pay for roaming is too small. Either give me some credible stats or evidence rather than making some noncredible personal assumptions because that's all I have seen from your posts. And if you cant get evidence to back it up then leave that argument out.
There you go again assuming people who are not willing to pay for roaming is too small. Either give me some credible stats or evidence rather than making some noncredible personal assumptions because that's all I have seen from your posts. And if you cant get evidence to back it up then leave that argument out.
Speaking of not providing evidence... Despite the many, many rants you've posted here about the woeful inadequacies of this forum's preferred wireless provider, you've never once shared with us what zip codes you want coverage in so that anyone could look up the population density and terrain or the official coverage map.
Here's what I know about coverage in my part of the US:
I live in the nation's 7th largest city, through which travels one of the very busiest interstate highways. VM's CDMA has both the city and that interstate covered like a blanket.
My city has another much less-traveled interstate that heads in a direction where population densities are very low. I lose CDMA coverage about 100 miles out of the city on that interstate in that direction. If I lived out there, I just accept that it wouldn't be feasible to have VM as my wireless provider.
My state also has one of the nation's least-populated counties. This is an area with <5 people per square mile. If I took my phone there, I would not expect to have coverage.
Speaking of not providing evidence... Despite the many, many rants you've posted here about the woeful inadequacies of this forum's preferred wireless provider, you've never once shared with us what zip codes you want coverage in so that anyone could look up the population density and terrain or the official coverage map.
Here's what I know about coverage in my part of the US:
I live in the nation's 7th largest city, through which travels one of the very busiest interstate highways. VM's CDMA has both the city and that interstate covered like a blanket.
My city has another much less-traveled interstate that heads in a direction where population densities are very low. I lose CDMA coverage about 100 miles out of the city on that interstate in that direction. If I lived out there, I just accept that it wouldn't be feasible to have VM as my wireless provider.
My state also has one of the nation's least-populated counties. This is an area with <5 people per square mile. If I took my phone there, I would not expect to have coverage.
I feel like playing the guessing game. Do you live in Las Vegas?
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