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Ooma Telo: Here to Streamline Your VoIP - And Your Life

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November 18, 2011

Ooma Telo: Here to Streamline Your VoIP - And Your Life

By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor


Ooma Telo, a voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) phone adapter, is new on the market in Canada, and it’s presented  as in pursuit of a quite noble goal: To streamline your life.  Admit it. This is an admirable goal.



What will accomplish this streamlining? The Telo, a small black box that looks like an answering machine. How so?  As company officials say, you can make phone calls over the Internet with Skype and Google (News - Alert) Voice -- as long as your computer’s on. Nothing’s really managed to overcome that requirement.

Telo is characterized by Ooma's chief executive Eric Stang as "the VoIP that works.” To set it up, just plug the box into a high-speed Internet connection and connect a phone. Boom, there you go. How that’s more “streamlined” than simply turning on your computer isn’t completely clear, as you need a high-speed Internet connection either way. But maybe it keeps you from getting distracted on Facebook (News - Alert) or something.

“Ooma's Pure-Voice HD technology produces voice quality that rivals the traditional phone lines,” according to industry observer Vito Pilieci, who adds that this is great news for those living in the Great White North, since “Telo considers all of Canada a local call.”

Cost: A $240 starting price, a $40 optional fee to transfer your phone number and taxes, and as Pilieci says, “startup costs will be around $300. For most consumers that is almost a year's worth of home phone bills.”

Running it after that is pretty cheap, though. Fees for using the device, outside of its purchase price, are a paltry $4 a month, Pilieci says, noting that this includes 911 service and federal taxes, voice mail, call display and call waiting, as well as the capability to establish a second line.

But you can also connect to Ooma with their cellphone through a Wi-Fi wireless connection, as Pilieci says, calling this one of the product’s most compelling features, since if you’re traveling you can avoid paying roaming and long-distance charges.



 


David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Stefania Viscusi






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