Vonage vs. Magic Jack - one reader’s opinion

Posted by Joe on June 30th, 2008

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A recent commenter on our blog provided an excellent comparison of Vonage and Magic Jack, two popular VoIP services. We thought we would call out the comment in a separate post since we receive frequent inquiries from our readers about our opinion on Magic Jack.

I have Magic Jack and I agree it does a very good job, and it’s $19.95 per year, but the quality is not as good as Vonage, and Vonage offers more for the $24.99 a month. I have used Vonage for over 2 years and it is just the BEST PHONE Service I have ever used and I’m 58 year old.

I use my Magic Jack when the kids come home with the grand[kids] they use the Vonage phone to call all the friends around the USA, so Magic Jack is my GREAT BACK-UP. The other problem is Magic Jack does not have my area code as of yet so people wishing to call my on [Magic Jack] have to pay long distance, a bummer to be sure.

In this readers head-to-head comparison, it appears that Magic Jack offers a decent, low cost option but it is lacking in call quality and features. Vonage, on the other hand, is a true landline phone replacement option and offers many features, such as Internet based voice mail, that are only available with higher end VoIP services.

Between the two, we would suggest Vonage for most consumers that are looking for a high quality, feature rich and reliable Internet based phone service.

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