Can A Phone Service Provider Block Calls To Numbers It Doesn Like?
About four years ago, I signed up for AT&T CallVantage VoIP service and ditched my traditional POTS landline phone service. This was back when AT&T was actually betting on CallVantage and using it as a (many reviews claimed) better alternative to Vonage. Then, of course, SBC bought AT&T and wanted nothing whatsoever to do with CallVantage. It neglected the service, and quality got worse and worse until it announced a few months ago that it was shutting the service down completely. Fair enough. I contemplated going strictly with a combination of Skype and my cell phone for phone service, but I’ve found both to be somewhat unreliable at times — and for unexplained reasons my new laptop has terrible microphone inputs — so everyone I’ve called via Skype insists they can’t hear me at all (and I’ve tried both USB and the mic inputs, and multiple microphones — no luck). So, after hearing about some friends who were using it and doing some online research, I decided to try “MagicJack.” You
