Saving Money with MagicJack !

Ok I was a skeptic for a long time. Why should I buy a Magicjack? I mean how good could it be for $20.00. Well to my surprise it is well worth the $20 a year. Unlimited calls to anywhere in the US Canada for $20.00. We actually dropped a cell phone service and are giving the Magicjack a try for use at home. This will save me $70 a month or $840 for the year for giving up one cell phone. My wife is at home most of the time so why pay for an expensive cell phone. We get a local area phone number that is ours to keep and no monthly bills. Easy to set up, it probably took about 2 minutes total to get going. Just plug in the phone to the Magicjack, then the Magicjack into an open USB port on your PC. It begins to auto load the software and does an update over the internet. You follow a few prompts to set up your local area number and your address for 911 purposes. Within just a couple minutes you are making and receiving great quality phone calls for really cheap. This can also be used on any PC so you can move from one PC or laptop to another. Take it on trips with you and plug into your laptop while in a hotel room and you don't have to pay for using the phone in the room. As long as you have internet access you have phone service. The better the connection the better the voice quality of course. At home I have hooked up the Magicjack to a cordless phone and you wouldn't know the difference from MagicJack to landline phone. So far I am very pleased with quality of calls and thrilled about the money I will be saving.

Saving more Money with Straighttalk.com

Well last post I was telling you about saving money with the MajicJack. Today I want to tell you about Straighttalk.com. Straight Talk is actually part of Tracfone. The best thing about there service besides the price is the fact that you do not have a long term agreement for service. No contracts no obligations. There are only 2 plans to pick from. The first plan is $30.00 a month for 1000 min talk time 1000 text messages and 30mb of data for internet. The second plan is $45.00 a month for Unlimited Talk, Unlimited texting, and Unlimited Data. Both plans include free 411 calls. I believe there is a short 15 second ad you probably have to listen to before getting the number but no big deal. You do have to buy one of their phones for this service so there is a cost up front to get started. They have phones from as little as $39.00 though so everyone can find one they can afford. I went with the Samsung R451C which has a nice little full qwerty keyboard with large buttons that make it really easy to text and browse the web. Don't expect a whole lot of great graphics with the web interface though. Its browser is very basic and does the minimum it needs to do. I could have gotten 2 phones and 2 $30.00 a month plans for a combined 2000 min Talk, Text and 60mb data and would have payed only $60 a month for 600 more min talk than I get with Verizon for our 2 phone plan without internet that runs me $135 a month. But since we decided to go with the MajicJack at home and only have 1 cell phone now I will be cutting my phone bill by a great deal.