Ooma Telo Free Home Phone Service (Discontinued by Manufacturer) by Ooma [並行輸入品]

I replaced my ATamp;T landline service with this seven months ago, and I couldn't be happier with my decision. Some specifics:- Caveats: Your experience may differ depending on the speed of your internet connection, its reliability, and the reliability of your electricity. In my case, all three are good enough that we rarely experience disruption in service. In addition, we get good cell coverage at our home, as a backup.- Sound quality: Nearly indistinguishable. When we first got the unit, but before we ported our number over, we did a comparison, calling friends and family on both Ooma and ATamp;T. The other parties could not perceive any difference in sound quality. On our side, the only difference we noticed was that the sound was louder with the Ooma.- Connectivity: Even after reading reviews and literature, we were a bit uncertain as to whether the Ooma would handle our entire house effectively. We needn't have worried. There is a little box on the outside wall of our house where the phone company's wires enter. The box takes a screwdriver to open, and inside is a cord that plugs in to a regular telephone jack type of outlet. Unplug that cord, and we are disconnected from the phone company. Then we plugged the Ooma into a spare phone jack in the house, and every other phone jacked worked as normal, using the Ooma. It was really easy! Bear in mind that our internet is delivered over the cable lines. If our internet were delivered over the phone lines (i.e. DSL), then this approach would not have worked.- Alarm system: We have an alarm system, and you aren't supposed to use the Ooma with it. Before getting the Ooma, we upgraded the system to one that uses a cellular connection. This increased our monthly cost for the alarm system, but that increase was far less than our phone bill savings.- Cost: We elected to get Ooma's $10/month Premier service. Even with that and the increased alarm system cost, it only took a few months for the Ooma to pay for itself in phone bill savings.- Features: The Ooma basic service contains nearly all the standard features our old landline had, with the exception of three-way calling and name lookup on caller ID. The Premier service contains those, plus a number of additional features. These are the ones that we enjoy most:--- Blacklists: If the federal "Do not call" registry isn't reducing your annoying call volume enough, this is a great help. There is a "community blacklist" that filters out many telemarketers based on their directory, and you can use the web site to create your own personal blacklist as well.--- Voicemail monitoring: Voicemail is great, but answering machines have the advantage of letting you listen to the message as it is being left, and even interrupting the message by picking up the phone as the caller is leaving it. With this feature, Ooma gives you the best of both worlds.--- Multi-ring: Pick a mobile phone number, and your cell phone will ring whenever your home phone does. If you are counting on your cell phone as a backup in case of service disruption, then you may want to enable this feature or the "backup number" feature (which is similar, but only activates if it can't ring the Ooma).There is also one new feature from the Basic service that we really like: The ability to configure the number of rings before voicemail picks up. For some reason, our ATamp;T landline switched to voicemail after only three rings, and we couldn't change that. As a result, we would frequently have mad dashes to the telephone in order to avoid missing a call. We configured Ooma for a more relaxing six rings.In short, we are paying far less for just as good voice quality and more features than before. If there is a downside, we haven't really noticed it in the last several months.

Absolutely loved our Ooma- we used this for many years without any issues. It is a great way to have an affordable phone line without the large prices through the telephone companies or internet. The call quality was great, it was easy to set up and loved the answering machine. We also subscribed to their premium features. Awesome long lasting product.

I had a land line that I averaged about $35.to $40 per month and if you had a lot of long distance calls the bill would be higher. So, I took a chance and bought this piece of equipment. It is adequate. The reason I gave it 3 stars instead of 5 is the quality of the voice ( sometimes it breaks up ) and the delay factor. I live in a rural setting and my ISP is via satellite. My internet is fast (about 25 Mbps ) but I do have delay in the voice transmission and reception. Not much but it's aggravating. And if you lose your internet you will lose OOMA so it's necessary to have a cell phone for back-up. I use a Tracfone for that. ( About $7.50 a month ) if you buy the two year AirTime Card. You also must pay your government about $4.21 a month for the " use " of OOMA for FCC fees and taxes. If you have a cable or fiber optic for internet, you MAY NOT have the issues that I have and in that case OOMA is a must have item. It saves me money and if the weather is fine the voice and delay issues are not as pronounced. Would I buy again. Absolutely. But just know up front what you can run into. I'm trying different ways to connect my OOMA and some are better than others. But it does save me $30 to $40 dollars a month. You just have to put up with some of the issues if you have satellite transmission for ISPs. .