International call fowarding

crusader · Post by **crusader** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:50 am

Hi, i am hoping magicjack will add international call fowarding. I can not see a reason why they should not do it, because as long as you have international minutes on your account, why should it matter where you foward your calls, as long as it comes off of your account. Plus it will allow callers to foward calls to a foriegn phone, so when you are out of the country, people will still be able to reach you. With out knowing where you are. But for now it does not accept all of the numbers to foward the calls. But you can make an international call is you have minutes. Can someone out there fix this?

crusader · Post by **crusader** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:30 am

Wow. It is amazing, that no one has any idea, or knows of any other way to do this. Or maybe no one on the board travels, or maybe no one see's how this could be a useful thing to work remotely. Or is it this has already been addressed, and i just missed it?

TimSH · Post by **TimSH** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:54 am

Um... I'm a little confused as to why you would want to do this. Why not just take the MJ with you wherever you go? As long as you have a broadband connection, you can plug in. Why would you want to forward them?

crusader · Post by **crusader** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:09 pm

That is a very good question. And i have a very goor answer. Okay when you go away, meaning not in the good old USA. When you are traveling abroad, unless you are walking around with your computer in a foriegn country the magic jack is useless. The purpose of having international call fowarding is so when you go away to a foriegn country you can buy a phone chip from that country and put it in your unlocked phone, and not pay international roaming fee's, to recieve calls. Because all incoming calls are free, when you have cell phone service in that foriegn country. So now if you have free incoming calls when you are out of the country. People can call your local magic jack number here in the US, and you can have the calls fowarded to you international cell phone, so people can reach you with out knowing where you are. Because i am sure you don't always walk around with a laptop. So this gives you a chance to be mobile were ever you are, and not pay a super high phone bill. So now do you see the importance of international call fowarding.

And for those of you that still do not get it here is an example. I was away on vacation in Brazil. But because i am a consultant, there is no such thing as a vacation, as long as you have a phone. I had a client call my US Lingo number, which was fowarded to my international cell phone number, in brazil. To schedule an appointment to meet up with me, later that day. (LOL) Now if i did not have this feature i would have lost the deal. But because the client could always reach me i got the deal. And maybe if the client knew i was away, he might have gone some where else. Because he might have felt i might not concentrate on the job.

mberlant · Post by **mberlant** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:16 pm

crusader wrote:And i have a very goor answer.

I read this rant and can't figure out if the misspelled word is supposed to be "good" or "poor", based upon what followed. I am also a global consultant, and I wouldn't be caught dead relying upon a $2 per month Long Distance substitute (the low-priced spread) as the lifeline of my business. I also wouldn't have any success amongst the multinationals I serve if I abused the English language as this posting did.

MJ is a fine substitute for Long Distance, but a miserable substitute for POTS. It's right there in the financial mission and the market niche they chose to be in. Other VoIP companies have chosen to be in more expensive (and, hence, more reliable) segments of the market for good reason. There is room for everyone in the market, but you get what you pay for.

My recommendation would be for you to use MJ as one element of your comprehensive telecommunications plan. As they say on TV, "Make it a part of your complete breakfast." At $2 per month, MJ is just the sugar on top of your cereal. At the risk of stretching this metaphor too much, you need to have a SIP PBX (Asterisk, or equivalent) as your cereal, a stable DID service provider or POTS as your primary incoming phone number as your milk and a reliable international service provider (NuFone, or equivalent) as your orange juice.

Had you had this kind of environment supporting your practice when you visited Brazil, not only would you have had reliable incoming service when receiving calls from folks back in the US, but you would also have had access to support system that provide access numbers all over the world for you to call back into your system in the US for no more than the cost of a local call to a Rio or Sao Paolo phone number.

You get what you pay for.

crusader · Post by **crusader** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:36 am

Well, Thank you for your response. You are right there are some minor mistakes, especially (fowarding) lol. But i got my point across. I do understand what you are saying, but it would be nice to have it all. PLEASE DO NOT GET ME WRONG. I think this device is great. But why not add this extra feature, that seems so easy to add, especially if they are going to make a little extra money. And i am sure they are making something off of that long distance charge. See to me it would be different if they did not offer international calling, or call forwarding. But they offer both, so it is as easy as allowing the program to accept a few added numbers, on the forwarding side, and the result would be more money.