Category: (CE)
2 new, starting at $245.00
1 used, starting at $230.00
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 $39.99. 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.
Great Product !!!Reviewed by Sardar Patel, 2010-03-06
I was Vonage and Lingo customer. I liked Ooma as the best. For
international call the rates are ok for which I use the calling
card since I do not make lot of international calls. If you are
making lot of international call then Vonage will be the best
option. Lingo is the worst. They are notorious of cancelling your
international calls if you exceed certain limit.
Problem with faxing with OomaReviewed by George H. Pro, 2010-03-06
I first heard about Ooma at their booth at the 2010 CES show. My
concern with all VOIP products has been their ability to handle
inbound and outbound faxes, as I own a small business. At the show
Ooma assured me that I could indeed do faxing successfully with
their product, so I ordered the unit with high expectations. It is
not as easy to set up as Ooma suggests and I had to make several
calls to tech support. When I asked questions about faxing I got
different answers from each tech support person. One said no
problem; just set up the fax machine to answer a fax on 2 rings and
engage the answering machine on 4 rings. This didn't work -
incoming non-fax calls tripped the fax at 2 rings and never got to
the answering machine. And so on it went. The 4th tech support guy
said to make it work I would have to have the fax # as my primary
number and I would have to buy 3 or 4 handsets to replace my
wireless phone system. I could see that it was hopeless. Ooma
cleverly doesn't mention faxing on their website - it is there but
you have to dig through sub-menus. It is clear to me that Ooma has
not solved the always-thorny problem of faxing over VOIP and yet
they represented at the CES show that faxing was well within their
capabilities.
I requested a refund and sent the unit back; it was received at
Ooma February 17. A refund was supposedly issued March 1 but as of
March 6 it has not been credited back to my card. I have made 4
calls so far about the refund and have gotten different answers; I
will place call #5 next week as the saga continues. They do make it
difficult.
Needless to say I am unhappy with Ooma's representation of product
features that do not work. The product may be fine for regular
phone voice transmission, but they did not do their homework with
faxing. Perhaps in 1-2 years they will have a mature working
product that embraces the essential function of faxing.
George H. Pro
OOMA HUB & ScoutReviewed by K. Johnson, 2010-03-06
Well made, looks great and works perfectly. Installed ahead of my wireless router it doesn't affect speed or response of two computers and wireless printer on-line at same time. Voice quality is always crystal clear and doesn't have echos or static as my previous Vonage system did. Unbelievable but true; a free, unlimited long distance phone system for a one-time purchase price. Goodbye Vonage. Way to go, OOMA!!
Not bad but has limitations......Reviewed by TJ, 2010-03-03
Bought this on a whim after reading the reviews on it here on
Amazon and was looking to replace my magicjack. It's not too bad so
far but the installation was anything but a breeze. Followed the
instructions and put in behind modem and in front of router and
nothing happened. Internet connection on the computer and
everything else died. Finally I remembered reading somewhere in one
of the reviews that someone put it behind the router and "BAM" it
worked.I watched it go through the pattern and everything started
working. So far the service has been ok but I haven't had it long
enough to say if it's been worth the investment.
Pro's
1. My phone stays on all the time
2. Much easier to fax
3. Sending calls straight to voicemail
4. Multi ring service (home & cell ring @ same time
5. Forwards voicemail to your email address or cell phone email
program (magicjack does it too)
6. I don't have to keep the computer on like I do with
magicjack
6. For the extra fee you get a second line which really is not a
second line because it's the same number
Cons
1. Seems to have affected my internet speed
2. Have to pay for some features that are standard on
magicjack
3. Anyone at your home can access your VOICE MAIL without a PIN.
Just pick up any handset dial your number and listen as well as
press any button on the hub or scout and listen. Ooma knows about
this (lack of pin on handset ) and say it's a problem they are
working on fixing however for single men and women this might
create a problem.
4. Not portable like magicjack....I will keeping this service when
I travel overseas. I have read that you can do the same with ooma
but I don't see how without an internet connection. Most hotels
offer FREE wireless service ....how would you connect ooma
wirelessly?
Here is a quirk I discovered today ....I called the number from my
cell phone at 6am in the morning, hung up and around 9:30am my
phone rings and displays my cell phone number and no one had dialed
out from my number. Can't figure this one out.
I will update this review in 6 months
Bye bye Verizon - it works its easy - already made our money back
in savingsReviewed by Lee, 2010-03-02
We were dissatisfied with our telephone charges from Verizon. They
were even charging us for online games we were not aware of, so
check your bill carefully and query anything on there that you are
not sure what your paying for.
Our monthly bill was over $100.00 and we were hardly using our home
phone.
I saw this on Amazon and hesitated for months maybe a year or so
before buying on the strength of overwhelmingly good customer
reviews. Every month I hesitated we were wasting money on
Verizon.
So glad we got this last year, we have had for nearly a year now at
time of review and no problems, pleased to say its reliable so far.
It only took about 3 months to pay for itself. Set up was very easy
and as stated all calls within the U.S. are free with no monthly
charges (we didn't subscribe to the premier plan, the basic free
service is superb on its own).
We also use it to call the U.K. at only 3c or less a minute (just
load up an amount in your Ooma account for international calls and
it takes it out of that balance when you use it to call overseas,
no billing, you prepay what you want). Voice quality is good, same
if not better than regular landline.
Now we just pay our local cable company for internet (stopped
Verizon for that too), and make and receive calls anywhere in the
U.S. with no charge and no monthy or yearly fees.
Fantastic.
