Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP)

January 21st, 2010 |

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How VoIP / Internet Voice Works

VoIP converts your voice into a digital signal that travels over the Internet. If you ask an ordinary telephone number, the signal is converted into a regular telephone signal before it reaches the destination. VoIP may not allow you to launch an appeal directly from a computer, a special VoIP phone or a traditional phone connected to a special adapter. Furthermore, it is wireless "hot spots" in locations such as airports, parks, cafes, and canconnection to the Internet and can allow you to use VoIP service wirelessly.

Another upstart has crashed into the world of telephones, calls selling cheaper, would be in charge can not compete. The website of Magic Jack is like a carnival, and inventor Dan Borislow may seem like a Carnival Barker. But its $ 40 device sold quickly with its promise of a year of unlimited calling throughout the United States for just $ 20 per year. 'And' now the largest phone companyis, "Borislow boasts a typical lack of restraint. He was referring to the ads of Magic Jack in all 50 states, with the numbers offered in about 80 percent of area codes – claiming that AT & T is not possible connect.

The colorful and rich Borislow, which also raises, breeds, and betting on horse racing, Magic Jack launched easily from the gate. The launch has sold over 400,000 units, only six months after its official has revealed. It is selling about 7,000 a day, the company says, addingtwice the net accounts during the period, such as Vonage, one of the pioneers of Internet-calling. Magic Jack is not only appealed the price has dropped to just $ 20 for the second year of call, but the sound quality is always good. And it is flat, easy to install and use.

Early successes Magic Jack suggests a new threat to telephone companies losing business to mobile phones and Internet calling. But it is still a pipsqueak in Telecom, where cable companies is the affirmation of the realthreat to Internet calling. Great men have been conducted with packet voice services with TV and broadband. Cablecos account for 80 percent of the 16.2 million Internet phone lines in the United States, housing, according to TeleGeography Research, which keeps track of communications.

While Vonage has stumbled in an attempt to muscle for Internet calls, often known as VoIP (for "Voice over Internet Protocol"). Other Internet start-ups like SunRocket simply disappeared, leaving the customerScrambling to replace telephone service. "VoIP has made and broken many businesses along the road," said Jon Arnold, an independent analyst who follows the market.

Depending on an Internet startup to phone service may be intense. But Borislow says Magic Jack is in the business for the long haul. He and Chief Executive Officer Don Burns funded much of the $ 25 million spent on building the business. Borislow his money in 1990 is cheap long distance from Tel-Save (later known as TalkAmerica). Burns made his fortune by creating the 10/10 "" long-distance numbers.

After a few years, as a retired couple Borislow, now 46, returns to where Telecom. Has more than three years to build a computer system and switches to provide a private network for the realization called Magic Jack. This represents an unprecedented control on the quality of the call to an Internet-phone company, Borislow said. "It 'a bit' as a patch, but instead of connecting to AT & T, which are in contact with menetwork. "

There are stumbles. Some customers complained that the tone of their phones would work in the menu is not driven services, which reached 800 for an airline issue. And the service that has had problems with wireless broadband connections are now sold through carriers. Borislow said that the problem should be a software solution can be updated automatically sent to all devices Magic Jack.

Customer service is only available via online chat, and poor reviews. Borislow saysis better, and intend to keep it online. For one thing, if a customer is not able to reach customer service on the Internet that would prevent the weak as the culprit behind the problems Magic Jack.

Here's how it all works as follows: Magic Jack is a large disk of thumb that connects to the USB port of a PC. Along with other Magic Jack is a standard phone jack attached to a standard telephone. The device loads its software, and within minutesUsers can make and receive calls using their old phone or wireless phone. Magic Jack customers should keep their computer turned on to make and receive calls. But piggybacking on your computer (including Macs with Intel processors) helps to keep costs low.

Borislow plans to make money by selling ads as part of the software that runs as Magic Jack joined kg "This will ultimately be more of a portal," said the software interface is displayed.

TheThe company also reserves the right to monitor the numbers dialed for the advertisements, which some critics find scary. Rob Beschizza on BoingBoing called it "a systematic violation of privacy."

Borislow said that the ads focus on the basis of user data is not worse than what Google does for the regulation of advertising based on Web searches or the content of e-mails in the Gmail system. "We will do what the others are not in Web advertising," he said, promising to protect the privacy of users. The software robotTo monitor the content of phone calls, not yet. "I'm not going to do something to piss off my customers."

Borislow, meanwhile, not from the sale of his new company, if the right offer arrives. But he also spoke, as if Magic Jack will soon rank among the major telephone companies. Nobody has a unit to broadband consumers, which operates its own GSM network is presented, said: "This is a disruptive technology."

Analysts are skeptical. There will be niches for start-up, butthe telcos and cablecos have too much advantage in possession of pipes to provide broadband access at home, says Paul Brodsky, an analyst at TeleGeography. He said that day came and went as independent companies could disrupt the VoIP telecommunications market.

Time at home with an IP network, providing service to the historic telephone companies lower cost. "When you have an IP network, in reality it is nothing to vote on it during meals," said Arnold, an independent analyst. "It 'a racezero. "

All you have to do is log MagicJack.com site for $ 40, which includes your first year of service. Thus, when the USB device to obtain, simply connect it to your computer, connect a telephone line to Magic Jack and began calling. I recently connected my fax to the Magic Jack and faxed several documents, without problems.

And 'the wave of the future, looking at AT & T and Vonage, the new era of mobile telephony is about to explode and his call to help Magic JackVOIP!

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