Comments on: Our New ooma Phone, Investing, and More

By: Madison

Madison — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:02:51 +0000

@ ElleX: So far so good! We kept our number and it works great. I’m loving the free phone service.

By: ElleX

ElleX — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:17:19 +0000

Madison, how do you like Ooma? Did you keep your landline number? I want to rid myself of a landline phone so I am very interested in your results.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:43:03 +0000

We have had Ooma for over a year. Getting rid of the landline bill is fantastic. The nice thing about Ooma over MagicJack and/or Vonage is that your computer does not have to be on for Ooma to work – not to mention NO monthly charges at all!

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:45:39 +0000

Just got one this week. Hooked it up, started the number port. But I haven’t really used it yet. I hardly use the telephone, and getting rid of $36/month will be great.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:44:26 +0000

I’ve been using MagicJack for a about a year now and it has worked fine. There are some times that I have had to unhook it from the computer and plug it in again but it has been fine. Having purchased 5 years of service for $50, I’m happy.

Ooma is interesting though. Perhaps will give it a chance down the line…

By: Andrew @ Earn Give Save

Andrew @ Earn Give Save — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:38:37 +0000

We don’t even have a landline (old school or VOIP) at home. My wife and I just have our AT&T family plan, and it works great. I wonder what we’ll do when we have kids, though. Seems like you have to have something—maybe Google Voice would be a good option, though?

By: Ooma user

Ooma user — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:24:14 +0000

We’ve had ooma for some time now. We paid about $250 for the ooma hub and ooma scout. Our phone bill for local and long distance was almost $73/month, so the ooma paid for itself in three months.

My wife recently got an Iphone so we took $30 of the monthly savings back and diverted that to wireless, but we’re very happy with the ooma running over our AT&T dsl line.

By: CentralNC

CentralNC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:27:03 +0000

Vonage may still be the best way to go if you make many international calls. They have a plan for $28/month that includes *free* international calls to 60 countries. I’ve been using it for a couple months now and voice quality is good – never had to hang up and redial. Saving a bunch vs. my previous plan w/AT&T.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:20:20 +0000

Sounds interesting, but there are some extremely negative reviews on Amazon regarding their customer service, call quality, and their unadvertised 3000 minute a month call limit. Caveat Emptor!

By: Hughman

Hughman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:48:26 +0000

I have had Ooma for about a year now and it works as well as Vonage did.

Hookup was a breeze and porting my Vonage number was easy.

I have had no real problems, although there are times when call quality is not great – usually hanging up and calling again will fix that.

By: PT

PT — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:39:55 +0000

Good find, Madison. I’ll have to check it out if and when it makes sense to go back to having a home phone. We just run off cell phones now.

Thanks for linking to my book post!

By: Athar A. Khan

Athar A. Khan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:23:37 +0000

I’ve looked into the Ooma phone in the past and thought that the combination of Magic Jack and a cell phone was a better way to go.

What I like about the Magic Jack is that I can take it with me wherever I go. On the other hand, the Ooma is a nice dedicated device that doesn’t need a computer to run.

I’d be interested to hear about your experience with the Ooma. Perhaps it is time to look into it again.

-Athar.