Comments on: Hello, Telo http://tech.spotcoolstuff.com/voip-internet-telephone/preview-ooma-telo Reviews of electronics gear, laptop computers, iPod accessories, phones, cameras, HDTVs, GPS systems and cool gadgets with a WOW factor! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Serge http://tech.spotcoolstuff.com/voip-internet-telephone/preview-ooma-telo#comment-728 Serge Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:40:31 +0000 http://tech.spotcoolstuff.com/?p=2338#comment-728 I made the plunge to ooma Telo. so far so good. I was initially looking into the ooma hub, but the telo seems so much simpler. I am still not sure what the differences are. Currently, I am also a Vonage customer. Other than the monthly fees, Vonage worked great for me, very few issues over the past few years. My biggest biggest complaint is the fact call blocking is not available, plus the fact that the service costs around 400 buks a year. Granted, I plan on subscribing to the ooma premier service, which is 120 buks a year, but I get a lot more in return. I was really getting disgusted with telemarketers and robocalls that something had to be done. Since I was not sure which service I will ultimately keep, I decided to get a google voice number and use that as my public number. This gives me the ability to change to any phone system and not have to contact my friends, family, doctors, etc ... to give them yet a new number. The other advantage to Google voice is that you never need to worry about porting your number. You can make your virtual Google voice number point to any number. I plan to cancel Vonage in the next week or so, unless something is terribly wrong with ooma, but I have faith. :) Currently, my Google voice number points to my ooma number and my Vonage number points to my Google Voice number. All my calls go through 2 filters, first the Google voice, then the ooma blacklist. Overkill, maybe, unless you get unwanted calls early or late in the day when you are trying to relax. However if anyone gets a hold of my ooma number and calls me directly, based on ooma documentation, I should be covered and unwanted calls should be a minimum. I am doing all this because I recently changed my Vonage number and within a week I was getting robocalls on the new number, even though the number was never published, not even to my family. Vonage had no idea how that happened, so they say. Setup was really easy, about 15 to 30 minutes including the time to register your device on line. All I did was first turn off my cable router and the Vonage voice box, disconect my Vonage Voice box and replace it with ooma. Turn everything back on, wait 15 minutes. Voila! I got phone service. As I mentioned previously, I logged into Google voice, point my Google voice to ooma. Logged into Vonage and point my Vonage number to Google voice. Done! The voice quality is on par to Vonage, but time will tell. I hope this is helpful to your readers. I made the plunge to ooma Telo. so far so good. I was initially looking into the ooma hub, but the telo seems so much simpler. I am still not sure what the differences are.

Currently, I am also a Vonage customer. Other than the monthly fees, Vonage worked great for me, very few issues over the past few years. My biggest biggest complaint is the fact call blocking is not available, plus the fact that the service costs around 400 buks a year. Granted, I plan on subscribing to the ooma premier service, which is 120 buks a year, but I get a lot more in return.

I was really getting disgusted with telemarketers and robocalls that something had to be done. Since I was not sure which service I will ultimately keep, I decided to get a google voice number and use that as my public number. This gives me the ability to change to any phone system and not have to contact my friends, family, doctors, etc … to give them yet a new number. The other advantage to Google voice is that you never need to worry about porting your number. You can make your virtual Google voice number point to any number.

I plan to cancel Vonage in the next week or so, unless something is terribly wrong with ooma, but I have faith. :)

Currently, my Google voice number points to my ooma number and my Vonage number points to my Google Voice number. All my calls go through 2 filters, first the Google voice, then the ooma blacklist. Overkill, maybe, unless you get unwanted calls early or late in the day when you are trying to relax. However if anyone gets a hold of my ooma number and calls me directly, based on ooma documentation, I should be covered and unwanted calls should be a minimum. I am doing all this because I recently changed my Vonage number and within a week I was getting robocalls on the new number, even though the number was never published, not even to my family. Vonage had no idea how that happened, so they say.

Setup was really easy, about 15 to 30 minutes including the time to register your device on line. All I did was first turn off my cable router and the Vonage voice box, disconect my Vonage Voice box and replace it with ooma. Turn everything back on, wait 15 minutes. Voila! I got phone service. As I mentioned previously, I logged into Google voice, point my Google voice to ooma. Logged into Vonage and point my Vonage number to Google voice. Done!

The voice quality is on par to Vonage, but time will tell.

I hope this is helpful to your readers.

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