I saw an ad for MagicJack on TV, a USB VoIP dongle with a $20:year unlimited calling subscription, and looked into it. I am in no way affiliated with MagicJack, except that I saw the ad and was curious. It was introduced at the TED conference last April, and was buggy through last Summer. But it's been around a year now, has a budget for mass-market advertising.
Anyone know any more details? How do they offer $20:year, when most VoIP competitors charge at least $15-35:month? Are they using Asterisk for infrastructure - any thing more than maybe just voicemail? If this isn't a scam, or a bubble loss-leader that will collapse under a $20:year subscription, is it instead a new force pushing down prices, and pushing ahead the mass marketization of Internet voice? I tried to send this message directly to the list WED afternoon, but once again the Digium filter is silently rejecting my posts. Digium really should fix that. And soon. These lists are badly broken by it. On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:34:15 -0500 > From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Asterisk - SIP - H323 - IAX > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Seysan wrote: > > > If yes, what have you used for H323 part? I'm not concerned about > RTP > > Passing through the Asterisk Box (except maybe for IAX), and it is > not used > > as an User Agent. > > IAX2 does not use RTP. Asterisk is always a User Agent. SIP and H.323 > channels using RTP will always start out with RTP flowing through the > Asterisk box, and based on my understanding of H.323, it is not > possible > to redirect the RTP media to a different endpoint once the channel is > setup. > > In summary, while Asterisk is in a lot of ways 'like a softswitch', it > is not a softswitch. > > -- > Kevin P. Fleming -- (C) Matthew Rubenstein _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz