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VentureBeat: Ooma’s free land-line calling service

  • Greg M · 2 years ago
    Looks like I am #3 to respond here. Do I get a free OOMA to ma? If so I will place a gratuitous Link on my website.

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  • Marc · 2 years ago
    Ooma Box, Looks like the product consumer still waiting from the invention of the telephone itself!!!!
    It's open the gate for many new iniciatives to make a Global comunication for free a reality!!!

    Marc
  • Mike P · 2 years ago
    Sorry, but all available info about OOMA indicates to me that it is a technical impossibility. Phone lines don't work the way that OOMA is claiming, and they can't change that. The business model (free for "life") is also an impossibility!
  • Mike P · 2 years ago
    Hot off the press. Just found this on home.businesswire.com:

    August 9, OOMA announces Pre-sales. The announcement includes the following three statements:

    1. "This announcement contains forward-looking statements ... Actual results may differ significantly from management’s expectations."

    2. "Purchasers during the promotional period will have this no monthly charge service for at least three years."

    3. "ooma reserves the right to change or modify its offering including limiting the unlimited U.S. domestic calling to an initial set of customers."

    You can interpret these anyway you want, but to me they mean:

    1. OOMA is making wild claims and, if they don’t work, don’t blame us.
    2. "Free service for life" is only guaranteed to be 3 years.
    3. Later subscribers won’t get free service.

    Anybody willing to bet $400 on those terms?
  • Jim Worrell · 2 years ago
    Sounds like a very innovative idea. The traditional telco business model is badly outdated. I am glad to see Ooma is making VOIP more accessible by using your standard phone.
  • carinsurance · 1 year ago
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  • Biju · 1 year ago
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  • Nik · 1 year ago
    so how do we get the free device?