Internet phone service

NJres
Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:04:49 +0000

I am bringing this old thread up rather than starting a new one. We have no traditional landline at home and we have 2 Magic Jacks which we use as our “home” and for me “office” phones. The sound quality is marginal. There is a bit of a lag, so my wife constantly answers the phone like this, “hello… hello? hello? hello?” and it can be hard to carry on a conversation when you are constantly stepping on and gettting stepped on.

So, the good news is I recently bought an OBI device (Obitalk). It also attaches to my computer - well, actually it attaches directly to the router - and it works with Google Voice, so there is no monthly charge for this. The sound quality is excellent; pretty much the same as a landline and far better than Magic Jack. The bad news is that Google is going to stop supporting this device in mid 2014 so it will no longer work with Google Voice!! bummer! Too good to be true. There are other services that it will work with (not free I guess) but I haven’t started to research yet what I will do when I have to replace the Google phone.