Magic Jack or other phone options

Lergnom
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:45:23 +0000

I think MagicJack is the cheapest. But I’ve heard some bad things about their customer service if there’s an issue.

I would think about making sure you have the ability to forward calls from that number. That way the call will ring on your kid’s regular cell.

I would consider adding a line because then she has the option of using an LA number and even turning off the Chicago number in the future. My kid did that, set up a forwarding message in case someone reached voicemail on one line, and then gave up the old number. The idea in that case was to let people hiring in the industry see that she was actually in LA, living in LA, etc. Don’t know if that mattered but it was a cheap way of doing that. Friends could call on the old number and then after a while that didn’t matter.

BTW, 818 is a desirable area code because 8 is a good luck number in Chinese. Sounds like money or prosperity. My number has three 8’s and one of my kids has four. The numbers to avoid are 4 and 9 because those sound similar to death and about to die.