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By: Ooma public launch imminent… | coryandrews.com

Ooma public launch imminent… | coryandrews.com — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:58:23 +0000

[...] Arrington over at TechCrunch reports that much hyped silicon valley VoIP startup Ooma is currently taking customer orders for [...]

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:00:36 +0000

Ooma is great, but Michael, why don’t you tell the TC readers that Ooma will remains the right to charge after three years?

… sure, it’s understandable, I mean every company needs to get money… but I wonder why people always talk about ‘lifetime unlimited calls’…

That’s what their web page says:

“*Your one-time purchase of the ooma Hub™ device means you won’t owe monthly charges to ooma for unlimited calls in the United States for at least three years.”

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:15:09 +0000

Um, Mike is your math off? This is not Free (ie zero cost) if you need to keep your home phone line! With vonage or any true VOIP solution you get to toss your phone line which means the costs are lower.

Case in point. I use VoicePulse which charges me $15 a month for unlimited local and regional calls and 200 min of LD a month (all I need). Just to keep a land line, even if you don’t make any calls on it, is ~$15/mo, so where’s the savings? And with Vonage or VoicePulse I don’t have to but hundreds of dollars of equipment to use it.

By: iMarketingGuru (Search Marketing Wiki)

iMarketingGuru (Search Marketing Wiki) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:32:58 +0000

over-priced. Most of these market creators need to take a page from technology marketing books (I tried to think of the name of the book I just read but I completely forget, it’s a part of the Marketing Gurus summary pack). This company may be doomed to fail or not actually hit the curve that is necessary. Many people in this world don’t even know what VoIP is (…terribly sad), let alone will wish to follow the early adopters to the levels of the pragmatists. This service/product needs to find a niche and the best way to do that is through sites such as the blogs as well as the mainstream media.

Cool new gadget, I hope it will survive and prosper tremendously.

By: Dennis Peng

Dennis Peng — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:57:52 +0000

Retaining the landline is an option left to the consumer.

If landline reliability and real 911 are important to the user, the $20 they pay for a basic landline can be considered a form of “insurance” for some peace of mind. For our part, we offer a completely integrated experience that combines the best of both the PSTN and VoIP, unlike the “ships in the night” operation of these services today.

On the other hand, if reliability and safety are elements of phone service that aren’t important to you, cut the cord (perhaps you already have) and ooma will offer the same set of services, all over the broadband.

The limited time pricing of $399 applies to either case, and includes the ooma Hub as well as the premium services (the Instant Second Line and the Broadband Answering Machine features) – all with no monthly fees.

Dennis Peng
ooma

By: sean3

sean3 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:38:25 +0000

It would be nice to know who the 50 invites were. is there any way we can find out who the 50 are?

By: jaike

jaike — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:45:31 +0000

Mike, What about MagicJack (http://www.magicjack.com). My friend pointed me to that site when i showed him this link. What do you think about it?

By: David

David — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:42:14 +0000

Patrica above wrote:
>>>Yeah, I don’t have high hopes for Ooma. I think the name is tough. But, we’ll see.

How crucial are start-up names? And who’s choosing/designing them? And is there any prior testing (other than family and friends) involved? THAT might make for an interesting post down the road.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:15:49 +0000

Same concern as listed above, only worse. In NYC, taxes and fees make having the most basic of phone lines a $30+/month proposition. If I have to keep my land line, it’s really no great savings.

By: anuj

anuj — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:04:05 +0000

oops looks like GigaOm did mention the launch of OOma today

By: anuj

anuj — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:54:37 +0000

Come on guys give Michael a break…he loves the product he has a right to be excited about it…

Wonder why GigaOm which talks about everything to do with VOIP hasnt given that much coverage to Ooma..

By: kneepads

kneepads — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:41:08 +0000

Hey, do you think you could post an unboxing article on ooma? You really should dedicate more coverage to this blazing hot tech company on TC!!!!!

Really, early adopters aren’t using landlines anymore… they all have cellphones with more than enough minutes or are using Skype.

This blog is getting worse than SvN…

By: Derek Scruggs

Derek Scruggs — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:25:14 +0000

If you speak Chinese, italkBB.com is a great value. I use it to call China for free (I have relatives there).

By: 404-551-3898

404-551-3898 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:58:24 +0000

I am most curious about call quality. Because of Vonage’s dependence on my Internet connection, my Internet activity adversely affected call quality (a lot!). That’s why I am dropping them in deference to a Cable-based VOIP (as they use dedicated bandwidth for phone versus shared for Vonage et al). Since this is just a network device, I suspect it’ll have the same issues.

Anyone know?

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:28:03 +0000

Just listened to the podcast.

Ooma sounds awesome – Andrew’s explanation was great.

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:57:51 +0000

It should be possible to detect the callerID of the caller, and pass it through the Ooma peer’s PSTN connection, in essence, “spoof” it. I don’t know if they retain the original CallerID or not, or what hack/mechanism they might employ to do so.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:55:27 +0000

BC & Andrews – the fifty invites were given away, but they haven’t shipped yet. As soon as people get them, I’m hoping that they use the tokens on InviteShare.

By: bert

bert — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:45:25 +0000

So if you make an outbound call via someone elses ooma does their phone # show up on caller id or do they block it (in which case many folks wont answer a call from “private”

interesting to keep an eye on and see what happens.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:36:05 +0000

I won the TC/OOMA comment challenge but still have not received my unit. I doubt I’ll ever get it.

By: BC

BC — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:35:17 +0000

So what ever happen to the invites that were supposed to make there way to invite share from the 50 that were given away last month?

By: foraccounts

foraccounts — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:33:54 +0000

You folks should check out http://www.magicjack.com. It is much cheaper and works great (I have been using it as my primary home phone for 2 months).

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:31:40 +0000

There are a number of factors that can determine the overall quality of a residential VoIP call placed over a typical home broadband connection (DSL or Cable for the purposes of this post).

Regardless of your provider, if you are having quality of service issues like dropped calls, echo, garbled calls, etc…..pop open a command prompt on your PC and do a traceroute to your providers proxy address.

Chances are, you are traversing a shit-ton of routers (hops) and incurring hundreds of milliseconds of latency. That is why it is easier for the network provider to roll out quality VoIP services, because they can deploy QoS mechanisms all along the IP call route to ensure the voice packets have smooth sailing.

Independents have no control over the “last mile”, which is a problem for them.

Improvements in codecs and voice friendly QoS technology becoming more inherent in network routing and switching infrastructure will gradually alleviate these issues.

By: patricia

patricia — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:59:30 +0000

Yeah, I don’t have high hopes for Ooma. I think the name is tough. But, we’ll see.

Doesn’t call quality have more to do with whether or not the ISP is provisioning the voice packet? I believe so.