MagicJack Innovates with Femtocell, Number Porting
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, June 29, 2009 · 
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magicJack, the device that lets users make and receive calls over its VoIP network for a flat fee, announced in an industry article that it plans to link femtocell service to its product.
magicJack joins a standard home phone to its VoIP service via a $40 USB jack, which sells at big box stores such as Best Buy, RadioShack, and Walgreen’s. It lets you place and receive unlimited phone calls for $20 a year, with the first year free. The company collects revenue through selling ads, displayed as a part of the software client that runs as magicJack is operational. Despite media praise, magicJack has its flaws; for one, your computer must be turned on to make and receive calls.
The company is selling about 9,000 to 10,000 magicJacks a day, according to Daniel Borislow, the company’s founder, and customers are using about 500 million minutes a month. Further, Borislow touted that the company will do more than $100 million in sales this year and is cash-flow positive, a far cry from other VoIP providers (remember Sun Rocket?).
Borislow plans to add femtocell capability this year, and number porting sometime in 2009.
Read the Business Insider article.
magicJack’s inventor addressed the industry in January 2009.
Read NTCA’s ePapers for more on femtocells.
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