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ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills | 
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| Brand: ooma
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $225.00
You Save: $24.99 (10%)
New (4) Used (1) from $223.00
Rating:  68 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.8
Dimensions (in): 11 x 5.5 x 13.8
MPN: ooma core
Model: ooma core
UPC: 892943002025
EAN: 0892943002025
ASIN: B001C1MGKI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Includes both an ooma Hub and an ooma Scout | | • | Enjoy unlimited US calling, exceptional voice quality, and must-have features with no monthly fees or contracts | | • | Receive caller-ID, call-waiting, and voicemail at no extra charge; Pay as you go for low-cost international calls | | • | Hear voicemail and customize settings in the ooma Lounge | | • | 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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Product Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 63 more reviews...
 Why Ooma? November 18, 2008
J. Clay
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Sounds like an interesting gadget. But why would you spend this much for unlimited phone service? I bought a magicjack for $40 for one year, it too offers unlimited calling in the U.S., and only $20 for each additional year. And the sound quality is very good. Think how many years of service you could buy with the money you would otherwise spend on Ooma. And guess what? You can buy magic jack on amazon.com! Just do a search...
 WOW! A MUST HAVE!! November 17, 2008
D. Yanarella (NY)
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This has got to be the BEST PHONE SERVICE EVER!
o Simple and Cheap to use... high quality voice quality.
o Received ooma hub and scout, went online to www.ooma.com/activate and quickly set up account, enter the 'mac address' of your unit, chhose a phone number in your area code. Plug in your hub unit into your cable modem, hub unit lights blink, then when all is set, led light turns blue!
o Plug in your regular phone and you are good to go!
o You can use your existing answering machine by making the 'answer' rings on ooma lounge one ring higher than your present answering machine number of rings.
o My cable modem connection for upload is 250 kbps, and the phone quality is great!
o CHECK YOUR PRESENT BROADBAND CONNECTION SPEED here: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
o Connected ooma, and went to cancel my present Time W. VOIP ( SAVED $40 + a month current cost.) ooma works GREAT! Full Featured!
o You will require an ooma Scout unit for any other regular phones you may want in other rooms of your house.
o Hub and Scout Units are very high quality and sturdy.
Best Service out there! 5 Stars definately!! Thank you OOMA, and Amazon!
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Works as promised and more November 15, 2008
cjb
I've only had this little gem for 1 day so far, but I'm very pleased with function, features and quality. Setup was easy and it works as advertised.
We love our Ooma November 14, 2008
My Kids Mom
We have been using our Ooma system for about 5 months now. We love it. At first their were a few glitches, but customer service was very quick to get those resolved. The reception is better than when we had a land line. . . very impressive! My husband got one for his business after we were so happy with the one at home. We thought one of his phones was having a problem, but after he got the Ooma, he can be heard loud and clear on that phone. I highly reccomend ditching the land line rip-offs, and getting an Ooma.
Great for a former Vonage user! November 13, 2008
Jason M. Page
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have been a Vonage customer for three years and suffered through all of their growing pains. At $25 a month though for unlimited service I thought I would check to see what other options were available and decided on giving Ooma a try.
The Ooma hardware is very nice, comes very well packaged almost like a product from Apple.
Setup was quite easy. You have to get online and activate the Ooma Hub unit by entering the MAC address on the bottom of the unit and telling Ooma what kind of service setup you are doing, such as whether you will use Ooma with an existing line, get a new phone number, etc. They don't even need your credit card and you are activated.
If you are getting a new phone number then you are essentially done at this point. You get a new phone number to use, and you connect the Ooma hub to your home network. Ooma recommends you put the Ooma hub between your Cable or DSL modem and your home router (if you have one). The reason for this is that it allows the Ooma unit to manage your outbound internet traffic and make sure your phone calls are optimized ahead of other traffic, so that phone calls always have priority, sound good and work properly.
If you have a more sophisticated home network router than can do traffic shaping, recognition of IP audio, etc (some of the top of the line D-Link models have these "QoS" features built in) then you can simply plug the Ooma hub into such a router and get good results.
After plugging in the Ooma to your home network you simply connect a home phone to the Ooma unit and you are pretty much ready to go. There is an "ooma music" dial tone you will hear when you make or receive a call. This is one of the ways Ooma lets you and others know you are using their system and is sort of a free advertising that lets people know you are using this service.
You can plug the Ooma hub back in to one of your home wall jacks and then connect the Ooma scout unit in to another jack in the house so that you can use a 2nd phone there. The scout can even be configured to only ring on a 2nd line, have it's own voicemail, etc... this is possible because the Ooma hub has a built in DSL network system in it that allows it to communicate with the scout units over your home phone wiring. This is very sophisticated compared to other VoIP vendor offerings. You can add up to about 20 scouts on the system and keep adding lines, etc, but obviously there are bandwidth and practical limits that you might run into in such a scenario.
The only confusing part of the activation process was that after indicating I wanted to port my number I was informed on their website that I needed to call them to complete the porting process. The agent I reached was a bit confused and kept insisting I should just use my existing phone service with Ooma. About the 3rd time of telling him I just wanted to get my number ported he got the paperwork started up. They email you some forms a few days after activation that you need to fill out and fax in to get your number ported, which takes a few weeks. In the interim you are assigned a temporary number to use and you can plug your existing line into the Ooma hub and it will take your inbound calls and route them through the Ooma system.
The Ooma hardware is well designed, with thoughtful touches like a built in speaker for listening to voicemail and a brightness control so that you can turn down the brightness of the unit in a bedroom.
The software features are comprehensive as well, with features such as "simulring" (ring a cell or 2nd line at the same time your Ooma phone is ringing), magical "2nd phone line" from another phone on the system when the 1st line is busy, etc. You can learn a lot more about these features on Ooma's website so I won't go into them in great detail since this review is long as it is.
If you are porting a number things get a bit more complicated. You will need to call Ooma to start the number porting process, which costs $40 (they waive the fee if you sign up for their $99 a year premier service which offers extra features). Ooma will tell you to plug your existing line into the Ooma hub unit so that it will ring your calls in until your number porting is done. This means you won't be able to use a scout in the meantime. You can also permanently use the Ooma this way, keeping your old line as a backup/emergency service connected to the Ooma so that you will have phone service even if your internet service goes down.
In my case I elected to port my number, but didn't connect my old line to the Ooma Hub, I simply forwarded the number to the temporary phone number that Ooma assigned to me during the porting process.
Sound quality on the Ooma is very very good. My mom who is used to hearing me talk on my Vonage line immediately noticed how much better the service was. Sound quality should be excellent provided you connect the Ooma equipment properly.
I would strongly recommend this service to anyone with even a basic technical ability. If you simply need the "basics" of phone service such as call waiting, caller ID and voicemail, Ooma will be a one time purchase. Their premium services are also very nice and reasonable at only $99 a year (sure beats paying Vonage $300 a year for similar features).
One question that keeps coming up is how Ooma can make money with this model. The answer is that Ooma makes money when you buy the system hardware and also makes money when you subscribe to the $99 premium service. There's no saying that they won't increase the price of the premium services at some time in the future. Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see Ooma come up with new tempting hardware offers down the road such as better "scout" and "hub" units that offer features such as video calling between Ooma subscribers.
I am a voice over IP engineer and can certainly recommend the Ooma service, it's a great option compared to spending $30-$60 a month for basic phone service with your local phone company. Ooma supports E-911 for emergency calling, and if you are really worried about having a phone line during a power outage simply connect your cable modem, Ooma Hub and cordless phone system to a UPS Battery Back UP and you will have power for at least an hour during a power loss since all those devices will be running on battery.
I highly recommend this product and the model that Ooma are starting to put together to move beyond the "bell head" phone system that we all grew up with.
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