My New Telephone Number: 801-228-0295

This is a notice to anyone who wishes to call me on the telephone. I have a new phone number (although the old one will work for a while). If you wish to call me, dial 1-801-228-0295.

Anyone in the U.K. or Europe may find it cheaper to call my London number, which remains the same as before: +44 208 133 8002

I am experimenting with a new phone system that is rather sophisticated. It includes “follow me” call forwarding. By dialing one number, you should be able to reach me wherever I am: at home, at the office, or on my cell phone.

Best of all, there is a new “call me” feature that allows you to call toll-free if you are near a North American telephone. To use this feature, go to the newsletter’s web site at http://www.eogn.com and click on CONTACT US. On the next page that appears, click on the CALL ME icon, and then enter your name and North American telephone number. The EOGN.com phone system will then call you. Once you answer, the same phone system will call me wherever I am and connect the two of us together. This is a free call for you.

I’ll use this system for a few weeks and, if it turns out to be successful, I’ll probably write an article about it. Hint: It is really cheap. In fact, most of this phone system is available to anyone free of charge, assuming that you already have one or more telephones. I am using it to tie together my home, office, cell, and Skype phones.

Comments

[W. David Samuelsen]

801? Isn't that Salt Lake City - Provo area code?

[Dick Eastman]

---> 801? Isn't that Salt Lake City - Provo area code?

Yes, and the other number (+44 208 133 8002) is in London.

- Dick Eastman

[Cheryl]

If you are trying MagicJack, which I am guessing you are, I need to know how voice mail is stored on your computer [can it be stored in a public folder to access across the network?] and if it is stored as a .wav file? I am already sold on the idea but I still need to know these things.

[Dick Eastman]

I wrote about magicJack earlier (see my article at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/12/magicjack-never.html ) but my new phone number has nothing to do with MagicJack.

I am using magicJack as just one piece of my new phone set-up, along with my cell phone, a Skype phone and a regular phone at the office. They are all interconnected by another service, not by magicJack. I probably will write about all that in a few weeks. After three days' of use, I am pleased with the new system. I'd like to use it a bit longer before writing about it, however.

I have reduced my North American long distance charges to zero although I still pay about two cents a minute for overseas calls.

As to magicJack, it will send your voice mail messages to you in e-mail as an attached .WAV file. Voice mail is not stored on your computer until you receive the e-mail message. You can leave the computer (and magicJack) turned off. Your voice mail messages will still be recorded and then sent to you by e-mail. You receive them later after you turn on the computer and check your e-mail for new messages.

- Dick Eastman

[Carol]

When will the service be offered in Kansas and Missouri? I did not see any of the following area codes on the MagicJack's website: 785, 913, 316, or 620?

[Dick Eastman]

You can use the service now anywhere. The only question is whether or not you can obtain a local telephone number. If you need a local number, you obviously will have to wait. Many people, however, use magicJack with distant phone numbers assigned.

If you only use it for outgoing calls, the assigned telephone number is irrelevant. Many people do that, using magicJack only as a second telephone line. If you need a local number assigned, however, that won't do you much good.

I only use magicJack for outgoing calls. I have a local number assigned but, so far, I haven't told that number to anyone else. I could have had any number assigned from anywhere.

- Dick Eastman