Buy ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills

A lot of people are in this weird space between the desire to have a home phone and your complete lack of need for one. Everyone in your family probably has a cell phone, and yet your bank, your kids school, etc insist on having your home phone number? Your cell reception isn't very good at home?... but you're sick of fund raising calls during dinner, sick of other peoples collection calls?

Ooma offers free calls for life, or more precisely free calls until Ooma goes out of business. The device is easy to set up -- activate online, plug one end into your router or cable modem, the other into your phone, you're done. Setup shouldn't take much more than 5 mins. If you have a number to transfer, that takes a couple days. After that your phone pretty much works like normal. The Ooma has e911 meaning you can call 911 on it -- which is a big deal, skype doesn't support this currently.

The worked out of the box for me. One bit of weirdness -- you have to dial 1 before dialing an area code, otherwise you'll get a fast busy signal. I honestly haven't had a home telephone in years ... so this seemed a bit weird to me.

If you can't tell already, I really like the Ooma. There's a couple things i'd like to see in the future -- a device with a handset built in. I realize the concept of the Ooma is to replace your phone company -- but why not go a step further and replace my old, antiquated phone to? I'm hoping Ooma will come out with a nice handset with an LCD and a bit slicker interface to their service.

**EXTRA** I am a "Linksys CIT 400 Skype Phone" user, so I'd like to contrast the few for anyone who may be interested. The biggest difference is Skype's fee's. The best deal you can wrangle from Skype is unlimited out, and about 10c for an incoming call. This is a pretty *weird* asymmetry. I've also had billing problems with Skype -- Im on their unlimited plan yet I am regularly charged for outgoing calls that should bee free. This doesn't feel like an accident to me but an intentional draining of my skype account. Plus, Skype is just not reliable. I call out and get errors frequently, having to dial 4 or 5 times, and calling in from a landline seems to be a crapshoot at best. Add that to the fact you can only Pay with PayPal and I'm wondering why am I still putting up with all of this?Get more detail about ooma Core VoIP Phone System with No Monthly Phone Service Bills.