Introduction: When you are going to make a call to a distant friend, relative or business associate, you have to shell a heavy amount out of your pocket to pay for that. However, you don’t need to do that anymore. With the advent of Magic Jack, you can make calls anywhere and that too, at a fraction of costs charged by other service providers. Magic Jack is getting popular among the masses quite rapidly due to facility of making long distance calls anywhere in North America by paying a paltry sum of 40 dollars per year.

What you need to know about how Magic Jack works: It is a VOIP device which can be connected to your PC using a USB cable. With its help, you can call any number using the Internet. You have the flexibility of calling any number with the help of headset or your telephone. When you connect Magic Jack with your computer, you would go for a service provider such as YMAX and buy a subscription package which would be well within your budget.

Introduction to VOIP: With the help of VOIP technology, any Internet user can send voice and audio to any other user. It has advantage over the conventional phone as it would help you to send voice and audio using digital encoding which means higher quality, higher clarity and fewer disruptions. The data is sent and received in the form of data packets and is encoded at the end of sender and decoded at the receiver’s end. You will find a number of other service providers who provide the service of using Internet to make and receive calls, but none of them can help you to make calls using your normal telephone for this purpose.

Magic Jack employs a device known as SLIC which stands for Subscriber Line Interface. It enables the telephone to make use of the VOIP network for calling other numbers or to receive calls from them. This is not possible using the conventional telephone which cannot convert the digital and analog signals into each other and hence cannot be normally used for achieving this purpose.