magicJackGO 2017 VOIP Phone Adapter Portable Home and On-The-Go Digital Phone Service. Make Unlimited Local & Long Distance Calls to The U. S. and Canada. NO Monthly Bill. 2017 (1 Pack)

Was a bit scared since the reviews are all over the place some with odd claims.Had a brief issue when registering. I think the problem was I read the whole contract which took a really long time and it timed out without telling me it timed out. Started over from the beginning and worked the second time.This device works fine. The sound quality is fine, though a little lower level than a normal phone. And if the other person is talking softly it's not understandable more so than with a regular phone. There's no echoing or robot voice problems. Can call people and receive calls with a regular phone and it works. Be sure you don't plug it into the wall jack if that wall jack is connected to the outdoor phone lines, something bad might happen they note.This supposedly works with an Android app to allow wifi calling through the account. I couldn't get that to work, was giving connection errors even though connection is fine. But I didn't buy this for that feature so that's not a problem for me.I didn't have to pay extra for anything like some have said. There were a bunch of extras offered like custom phone numbers or porting the old number or stuff that you'd expect to pay more for, but these were all presented as optional. If you register with a US address you might later have to pay extra for 911 to your local 911 office though, but that has nothing to do with them. They note that if you don't pay them (and if you do they just hand it over with no markup), then your local 911 people might bill you directly.Contrary to some claims, it doesn't cut off calls after a certain number of minutes. I have made several long calls. They do note that they reserve the right to cut off if there's internet network congestion problems. I haven't yet seen that happen and it's understandable to me why that is necessary.To access voice mail you dial your own number! Wouldn't have guessed that but it makes sense once you know. Also you can configure on your account to have it give a different dialtone (beep beep instead of hum) to mean there are messages.All in all, yeah, this is a good thing and I like it.August 2017 update: It's been a year and a half since I posted my original review. Everything I said still stands: it's still working, there's nothing wrong with this service, I've had no problems, and there's lots to like. I was able to renew my annual subscription simply by buying a card at Wally World for cash. It's all quite smooth, and it's very reliable. I've definitely gotten my money's worth.

Summary:Pros:* Inexpensive. Average of $5.42/mo for first year (factoring in $20 to port existing phone # and $12 911 fee).* Setup is quick and easy* No need to hook up to a computerCons:* None so farI get virtually no cell signal in my apartment so I need a home phone. I was with Vonage for a little over a year and have no complaints about their service. When the intro rate jumped up to $35/mo (including taxes), I could no longer justify spending that much for a service I use to little. While looking around for alternatives, I remembered seeing the commercials for MagicJack and started reading up on the company and user reviews. For $33 for the small piece of equipment and 12 months of service, I figured it was worth giving it a try.The package arrived in 2 days (thanks Prime!) and setup took about 10-15 mins. Hooking up the equipment, which is a dongle a little smaller than a deck of cards, took a minute or two, and the rest of the setup time was creating an account and going through the various options. I ported my home # to MJ which costs $20 and took 5-7 days to complete. Another $12 for local 911 taxes, for an all-in cost of $65 for 12 months of service, or an average of $5.42/mo. That will save me $30/mo for the exact same type of VoIP service!Call quality has been very good and no different than a regular landline connection; no static, dropped calls, or anything like that. It works as advertised and does it at a very inexpensive price. I haven't traveled yet but will be heading overseas later this summer and will take MJ with me for calls back home.

Recently cut the cord from Time Warner Cable and dropped TWC VIOP service. The Magicjack Go was EXTREMELY simple and easy to set up. Works like a charm! Recommend it as an inexpensive alternative to corporate phone service (TWC, Verizon, Comcast, etc...) and also an alternative to more expensive VOIPs offered on Amazon. Magicjack appears to be the least expensive overtime and works just as well.Except..., and this is why I gave it 4 stars, the Magicjack does NOT work with ADT home security systems. The dial tone provided by Magicjack is not recognized by ADT. Even had an ADT tech come to the house and spoke with Magicjack customer service, but unfortunately there is no workaround using Magicjack and ADT. However, I found another solution. Instead of installing the ADT cellular service/option, which would have cost over $150 to install and added at least $20 a month to our ADT bill, I simply purchased the OBI200, adding a second VOIP device and second phone line thought Google Voice, dedicated to the ADT system. For reasons I can not explain, the OBI200 works with ADT. So we kept Magicjack and by adding a dedicated line to the ADT through the OBI200 and Google Voice, our ADT home security system now works perfectly. Even had ADT monitoring service run a test and the communications between our home and ADT worked! Note, the ADT cellular option is a more secure connection to ADT because a thief could cut our TWC internet connection from the outside of the house, but the cost of adding cellular was not worth it to me.Finally, don't make the mistake I made when porting over your home number and cancel your TWC phone service too soon. I attempted to port the number through Magicjack for $20 and without thinking within a day or two cancelled our TWC phone service. Magicjack came back and said you no longer own that number. Oops!!! Immediately called TWC and signed up for home phone service again. Fortunately our original home phone number had not been reassigned. So... my brain fart did cost use an extra month of TWC service and a re-activation fee, but we were able to keep our home phone number.