Ooma - Telo VoIP Home Phone Service - Black

Great product, good service. Ported old number to Ooma. Friends have been using Ooma for years. Stopped cable in the past, never liked COX. Finally got optical fiber, stopped DSL. Happy camper.

I just plugged it in per the instructions, logged into Ooma, and within 30 minutes was making a phone call with my new phone number. You get to keep the new number even if you have your existing ported over, which I did. Both numbers work on the phone. Ooma's support is very good too - I called to confirm the unlimited calling to Canada with the premium plan before purchasing, and they were very helpful. The premium plan including tax is about $14 / month for unlimited US and Canada calling. I am totally satisfied.

If you already have broadband internet you simple plug the Ooma device into your router and follow their setup process and that's it. You now have a "land-line" phone at your house that allows you to plug in normal phones. I plugged in my Panasonic base unit that has a wireless handset and 3 additional wireless handsets extensions placed throughout my home. This unit requires a WIRED connection to your router. Ooma sells a wireless and BT adapter you can plug into base unit if you can't wire it in directly or want base unit in different room. Things to take into account. ITS NOT A COMPLETELY FREE PHONE. You will have to setup an account with Ooma and pay a monthly base fee that includes: 1) Regulatory Compliance Fee; 2) 911 Service fee; 3) Local Interconnect Recovery Fee; 4) State and local taxes, fees and surcharges. ETC. It's a phone. There's always a bunch of fees. :( All of the above fees vary depending on your zip-code/location. My fees for all the above is $5.11/month. Yours my be a bit more or less but around $4-6/month. You can go to their site and look up your monthly fee. Ooma has a bunch of extra phone "features" you can add that costs $20/month but they are extras you don't have to pay for.

I was looking for ways to trim my cable bill, and wondered if I could get a better deal on phone service. Call me crazy, but I still prefer to have a landline for voice quality and reliability (and for the occasional faxes). Cell reception in my house isn't the greatest, so I prefer the landline when talking to friends/family. The phone portion of my cable bill was $40/month (yikes!). I was familiar with Vonage, but that was still $10/month. After some researching, I came across Ooma. It got good overall reviews, and was one of the top rated services in a leading consumer research magazine. I got my Ooma unit at Best Buy. It was super easy to setup (plug one end into my router and the other into my phone line). Sign up was a breeze, and I was able to get service almost instantaneously. I wanted to port my old phone number, and saw they charged a porting fee. If you signed up for one year of their "plus" service, they waved that fee. I chose this option, since I found a discount code (I can always cancel next year, since I probably won't use the extra features). The porting process took around a week, but I got status notifications along the way. I've been using it for several weeks now and really like the Ooma app on my iPhone. It notifies me whenever I get calls at home, and I can listen to VM from anywhere. There are tons of other features available, but I haven't used them. I've also used Ooma to call family in London "on the cheap". BTW, the only thing you have pay for each month are taxes/utility fees (~$5 for me). I know phone lines aren't that exciting, but this unit shines in helping me trim my utility bill!

This was a replacement to my prior ooma who met it's demise from a lightening strike. This is a vast improvement to the older version. Buttons higher and it's easier to clean. It's super easy to install and if you want a phone to be used at home for cheap this is the way to go. You won't be disappointed.

11/2020 I switched to Verizon FIOS and like many others I cut the cord from Optimum services and took my land line to Ooma. It's called porting your number in order to keep the number you current have. So happy I did. Simply works better too. You can install an app on your iphone or Android cell phone to make, receive, and get voice messages directly from your ported number or simply use the box to connect you personal phone at home. Just realized you will have a one time charge to have your current phone number switched over which is called ported. After that the cost for me per month is 5 bucks and change for taxes and fees for NJ. Best deal ever ;)

About a year ago, I bought an Obi telephone device but found it too complicated to set up. I bought the Ooma so that I could save money by dropping my cable companies phone service. I expected to save about $20 a month. I bought the Ooma, set it up in 5 minutes, and activated the service. I then sent out an E-Mail to friends giving my new phone number. I then contacted the cable company and asked to drop their phone service. Instead of dropping it, they gave me a $40 monthly discount for 12 months to keep it as part of my cable/internet/vice combination plan. As the Ooma only is costing me $4.23 a month, I will keep both services going until next year. The Ooma device was extremely easy to set up and the voice quality is superb. It has a lot of features. The best features are the call blocking of up to 256 phone numbers and a community blacklist so when other people block telemarketers or scam calls, you will automatically have the calls blocked also. The Ooma exceeded my expectations.

Easy to set up and get going. I wish that I had bought a wireless model for more freedom of placement but no big deal