Comments on: Ooma Launches Telo VoIP Hardware

By: ButcherChop

ButcherChop — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:20:44 +0000

Ooma Hub with no scout is on sale at FRY’s Electronics for $149 at the store here in L.A. It is advertised for $169, but $20 less at the stores. I just bought one, installed it and it works great.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:46:55 +0000

I just got the Telo yesterday. I bought it from Buy.com using Bing Cashback and saved a little on total cost. I should have created a new account to get the $10 off any order over $200 but I wasn’t thinking about that at the time but I still come out with the initial cost at $242 an getting another $9.70 back from Bing. Even with the budget shipping (free) it arrived in only 1 day! This thing is great and will replace our Vonage line which we’ve had for 6 years!
Anyway, the Kill-a-Watt test was done by a couple of posters in the Ooma forums. They say that the Telo uses 5 watts with the lights on and 4 if you kill them. In comparison, one poster says the hub uses 7 watts and add another 1 for each scout.

By: James Sullivan

James Sullivan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:49:17 +0000

Please read the Ooma documents.
Ooma clearly states that it is intended for Residental use and not Business use.

If someone needs to be on their home phone for 4 hours a day. Then that person needs to get a life.

By: James

James — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:45:40 +0000

@Charles,
Do you really have 4+ hour-long conference calls *every* weekday of the month? (If you do, my condolences.)

But including weekends, 5000 minutes/month is about 2.78 hours/day. I do think that’s bordering the low side for a family with multiple teenaged kids.

By: Derik

Derik — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:34:57 +0000

Can someone riddle me this? Why does the premium service cost $119.99 per year when month-to-month for the same thing costs $119.88?

Not being a troll; I just find it curious.

By: tivoboy

tivoboy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:46:53 +0000

I’ve used the regular ooma now since the beta, and didn’t like the shared bandwidth and POTS lines use – which is now gone – but would recommend it now to a new user since it basically acts as a regular VOIP applicance (better to get the older hub at this point since the T&C’s are better for previous customers) I ALSO don’t want the Telo, maybe the Hub, but I really HATE DECT 6.0 phones and their constant RF/EMF bombardment. Why did they DO THIS?

My future prediction (remember where you heard it) ooma just took in another 15MM$ in VC capital to manage the launch and grow their base. I think the expectation is to get them to the N-1 slide on their presentation deck. “STG”

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:48:54 +0000

Charles, the Hub and Telo are intended to be personal/home devices. A one time $250 fee for 5,000 minutes a month seems like a good deal to me. Looks like they have a small business offering slated on tap next year. Scott, we haven't had the most amazing experience with T-Mobile's UMA service. However, Melissa got in in the long term customer promotion of unlimited cell minutes for just $50/mo. One of the reasons we're in less need of a home phone.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:06:43 +0000

I’d consider an ooma, but I’d have to use it for 25 months for it to break even. Ugh. (t-mobile @home line instead for now — best voip ever).