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ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills | 
| Brand: ooma
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $231.99
as of 3/11/2010 02:53 PST details
You Save: $18.00 (7%)
New (5) Used (2) from $175.00
Seller: mouse2mailbox
Rating:  758 reviews
Sales Rank: 826
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: 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 | | • | 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 |
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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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 Great Product !!! March 6, 2010
Sardar Patel (NJ, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 Ooma March 6, 2010
George H. Pro (Seattle WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 & Scout March 6, 2010
K. Johnson (Treasure Coast, FL USA)
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...... March 3, 2010
TJ
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 savings March 2, 2010
Lee
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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