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Ooma Core VoIP Phone System

• Includes both an Ooma Hub and an Ooma Scout
• Free calling to any number in the US
• All the features you’ve come to depend on, like caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail
• Voicemail notifications to your email and mobile phone; the flexibility to hear your voicemail and control preferences online in the Ooma Lounge
• The freedom to talk on your existing corded or cordless phones with no PC or headset required

In a volatile economy, there’s one utility you can save with the aid of VOIP technology – your phone service costs. Smart and stylish, the ooma Hub and ooma Scout partner with your high-speed Internet and your existing home phones to deliver free home phone service. Your one-time purchase eliminates monthly bills for U.S. calling and delivers extremely low rates for international calls. Your one-time purchase of an award-winning ooma Hub device frees your phone service. Call anyone, at any number, anywhere in the U.S. without charge. Think how much you pay the phone company each year. Now imagine what you could do with all the money you save. Ooma is the only company in the history of the telecom industry that lets you own your dialtone. Your one-time ooma purchase eliminates monthly charges for unlimited US calling. Compared to other stand-alone VoIP providers, there are no monthly fees for US calling. Plus, the ooma system has been architected to deliver exceptional voice quality and reliability, giving you the crisp, acoustic performance of a landline, without the associated fees. A number of our customers have reported that ooma delivers “excellent voice quality,” “better than landline.” Easy-to-read manuals are full of colorful diagrams and simple instructions to make set-up as painless as possible. It takes the average customer less than 20 minutes to activate and install the ooma system. Using the ooma system is even easier! ooma devices have been designed to provide an intuitive out-of-box experience. Ooma can move your number from your current phone provider for a one-time fee of .99. To use the ooma Hub device, you need TWO things: 1. A high-speed Internet connection (cable/DSL/fiber-optic); and 2. A home phone. Try out ooma’s enhanced calling features with a free trial of ooma Premier, which includes a free second phone line, real-time message screening, one-touch Do Not Disturb and Send to Voicemail, a second personal number with private voicemail, and more.

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Free your phone service with ooma! ooma is the breakthrough device that frees your phone service. Acclaimed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week, and featured as one of the year’s hottest gadgets in Parade and In Style magazines, ooma offers the premiere home phone experience. Your one-time purchase of an award-winning ooma Hub device partners with your high-speed Internet and your home phones to deliver: Unlimited calling to any number in the US All the features you’ve come to depend on, like caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail The reliability and crisp acoustic performance of a landline Access to your voicemail from any phone The freedom to hear your voicemail and manage account preferences in the Lounge The option to create voicemail notifications to email and mobile phone Low-cost international rates starting at a penny per minute Easy setup to get you up and dialing in no time (more…)

Get the most out of your Ooma Telo with the official Ooma Telo Cordless Handset. Thanks to DECT 6.0 technology, the handset provides enhanced sound quality as well as security. It places all of Ooma’s features at your fingertips, including one-touch voicemail access, second line service, and phonebook access. If you’re an Ooma Premier subscriber, the handset also allows you to take full advantage of advanced features like private voicemail and personal number settings. Quite simply, you’ll be able to enjoy premium phone features without having to worry about nickel-and-dime service fees. NOTE: The handset requires an Ooma Telo (sold separately.) Each Ooma Telo can support up to four handsets. Synch the handset to the Ooma Telo (sold separately) at the touch of a button . Secure calls, clear reception. Featuring caller ID, instant second line, voicemail access and more. View larger. Ooma: The New Way to Call Switching to Ooma lets you enjoy all the b (more…)

Smart and stylish, ooma devices partner with your high-speed Internet and your home phones to free your phone service. Your one-time purchase eliminates monthly bills for US calling. Once you own an award-winning ooma Hub device, you can extend the full benefits of the ooma system throughout your home by connecting an ooma Scout device to a standard phone jack and your home phones. Acclaimed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week and featured as one of the year’s hottest gadgets in Parade and In Style magazines, ooma offers the premiere home phone experience. Simply connect the ooma system to your broadband and your home phones to enjoy: Unlimited calling to any number in the US All the features you’ve come to depend on, like caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail The reliability and crisp acoustic performance of a landline Access to your voicemail from any phone The freedom to hear your voicemail and ma (more…)

The Ooma Telo is a revolutionary device that allows you to call anywhere in the U.S. with no monthly fees. You can also make international calls for next to nothing. Ooma is easy to set up and even easier to use. You simply connect the device to your high-speed Internet and your existing phone, and that’s it. You don’t need a computer, and you don’t need a headset. With the Ooma Telo, you’ll be ready to start calling and saving money within minutes. NOTE: The Ooma Telo requires high-speed Internet and a router (sold separately). Overview Your one-time purchase of the Ooma system delivers:Free calling within U.S. and low-cost international calls with no monthly bills Caller-ID, call-waiting and 911 Outstanding voice quality and secure, encrypted phone calls Easy set-up with any telephone; no PC required Option to keep your current number and landline service 30-day money-back guarantee and extendable 1-year warranty Free trial of Ooma Premier — a suite of (more…)

So much for having OOMA, its less than a week as I have it and I did go for a vacation for few days and wonder what happend? Well my OOMA service did go down, because I was away I was unable to know that there was outage, my parents got so upset about service and that this never happened before with Verizon land line. Well I would say we got what we did pay for and as with any VoIP its always the case where you do relay on Internet connectivity. In the old days where there was no VoIP phone was always available, if you did not have answering machine, and just phone without external power (no wireless) telephone service was always availble, even when there was a blackout or some kind of power outage. Telephone Companies always had power backups so calling 911 or other service was as easy as just picking up the phone. Nowdays we just take for granted that we will always have power and phone service available. We all do have cell phones, but  we think that they will be always there. What will hppen when any of this will go away and we will not be able to even reach for help? Make sure that you do have battery backup for your cable modem or router, FiOS has its internal power battery which will last few hours.

Anyway here is the message that I’ve receiver from OOMA regarding that outage.

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So today I am finaly off my Verizon Land Line and off to OOMA. so exciting about this. Lets see how will be my experience. I have some 20-25 days of my premiere access for free that I’ve received when I did sign up for ooma, I wonder what will go away when that premiere service will be turned off.

As you know I have ooma system that I did purchase at amazon.com, for past few weeks and I am pretty happy about having it. Running ooma over FiOS is just best.FiOS is so fast, I do not see any latency and sound quality is great. Seriously any VoIP (Voice Over IP) is going to be great while running over FiOS service.

Actualy amazon.com has at this moment quite big discount on OOMA device, much lower than what other vendors offer it for, check it out, its certainly worth it.

Exactly two weeks ago I did receive my ooma system from amazon.com, so far I am quite happy with this device, it was quite easy to setup and to use it for that matter, there were slightly small complications as far as where my telephone line jacks were located and where my network feed was located, they did not exactly align in the same place, so I had to figure it out.

From OOMA I did receive welcome email, from OOMA itself, which was quite generic, then I did receive form to fill up in PDF to send it back to them for phone number transfer. Since then I did not get any information back as of yet, I did try to email them but I guess I might send email to a wrong place as I did not receive any answer back. I was trying to find out status on the phone transfer but on website no information is to be found. So its just wait and see on that subject.

My regular phone calls do come trough as I have my ooma plugged in to wall jack, all outgoing calls seem to go trough ooma service, so I think everything is working well. The trial period of premium service is only for 60 days but I do not see any benefits as of yet as I am not fully utilizing this ooma service as of yet.

Get it at Amazon;

Today I did receive my ooma box that I got at amazon.com
at huge discount. I was quite impressed with the packaging of that unit, honestly I did not receive lately such quality product as ooma is, very nice package, beautiful documentation and unit itself quite nice. Setup was quite easy although I had to figure out where I am going to place both units. What I had difficulty was Internet feed and telephone jacks. I did finally figured out and connected main unit next to my sling box, then run wires to telephone jack and phone itself, scout unit I’ve placed in other room. As I said activation was quite easy, you first have to connect to the Internet to to activate that unit/service, you need to provide phone’s MAC address and then your name and address info. You have ability to port your number. What I did not like is the fact that you can sign up for premiere service which is $99 per year and if you do then you can port your phone number for free, but if you do not chose to go with premiere service then you have to pay $40 to transfer your phone, but they do give you 60 days to try premiere account. What they should do is give you option to pay $40 to transfer number so you can do it right away as it takes few weeks to transfer it, but at the same time they should give you credit if you do decide to go with premiere service within the trial period, but unfortunately they do not give you that option I think.

I had vonage for probably 2 or 3 years now, I was neither happy nor unhappy about that service. My biggest concern was that we at my house have our own cell phones, I did not want to spend money for land line, but I wanted to keep that number as so many institutions have it. So I did chose vonage $15 plan, with all those stupid taxes my price that I was paying was almost $25 per month. That comes down to $300 per year of money that I did not need to spend. We rarely used that land line but I just wanted to have it. Then my co-worker did mention about ooma, so I decided to give it a try, my calculations were simple, $300 for vonage or $199+tax + $40 number transfer ($250 around one time fee), its no brainier. My only worry is what if this company does not survive crisis and they will go our of business? what will I do with my number? will I be able to keep it in any way? I don’t know, well I am taking this risk then…

Now, how about voice quality? well I do not see much differences, I do believe its the same, at least I did not notice a difference. I’ve heard its reliable service, but I will be able to say something more in about a year or at least after few months of usage. So far my experience is quite satisfying and I am very happy to make such change and move towards this new phone service.

Ah, as a side note, if your power will be off, you will loose service with vonage since it does relay on power and Internet connectivity. I have fios, so fios is backed up by power battery from Verizon, I did connect my router, ooma and phone into another ups device, so if I do loose power in my neighborhood I think I should be fine, just keep it in mind, old phone that connected to your telco if it did not have power supply for voicemail or other fancy stuff such as wireless was able to make calls if there was a blackout, but new technologies in particular voice over ip (VOIP) does not have such ability unless ou provide source of power. It is quite important as in case of such situation you still want to be able to reach for help such as 911 service. What differentiate vonage from ooma is the fact that ooma has this extra port to connect to wall jack, I am not sure but who knows, maybe there is a way to use that line in case of an emergency, I will have to investigate this and see if it could be utilized.

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