What do you think this tiny box is? I bought it about two years ago in Vancouver and had been using it everyday. It has two telephone ports and one TCP/IP port on the back. Yes, it is an IP phone adapter which can hold up to two telephones on the Internet. IP phone itself is not a brand new technology and of course we have various similar services in Japan, but the great point of this adapter is that I can keep my Vancouver phone number starting from 604 with it. I've brought it from Vancouver to Tokyo and it is now plugged into my network in my room. It means that if you know my Vancouver number and call it, I can receive it. I can also call Vancouver local number as much as I like for free. It is sometimes interesting to make or receive a phone call and pretend as if I was in Vancouver. If there is a problem, it is that there is a time lag of 16 hours between Tokyo and Vancouver. If I forgot to turn off the adapter, I would be waked up in the midnight. The phone call received while I am sleeping is set to recorded into a WAV file and forwarded to my email so that I can check it after getting up in the next morning. It's very convenient.
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