Ooma works in India

I purchased a Ooma from Amazon, and set it up in India. It worked fine! Hooray, for inexpensive unlimited calling!

Steps to perform -
1. Buy your Ooma device here
2. Activate it while you are in USA, and test it out to make sure Ooma is working fine
3. Take/ship your device to India
4. Purchase a 220v adapter with same specification as your Ooma adapter. Your Ooma adapter runs on 110v and will not work in India
5. Simply connect Ooma to the Internet and enjoy unlimited calling!

Vonage: Ooma like box

No, a Ooma killer is not on cards yet. But the struggling company Vonage has decided to glamorize the world of routers. Their new device called the VDV21, current in beta testing, is one router you won't need to hide under your desk. The device also includes a LCD display that can be used to troubleshoot service and receive messages from Vonage support.

• You should be an existing Vonage customer to be eligible to beta test
• Testers get a $29.99 credit on their Vonage account that can be used towards a free month of service or other Vonage add-ons
• Completion of testing includes the weekly 5 minute survey from Vonage
  

click here for beta testing the VDV21.

$400 now; $600 in 2008

Word is out that while Ooma is available for $400 per box when it is officially launched in September this year, it will cost about $600 next year.

I got a special pre-order offer from Ooma. Darn, I wanted the White Rabbit Offer! Oh well. I'm gonna wait and watch until 31st Dec if the service is worth it!

With $27MM in funding and Ashton Kutcher in the gang, how can they go wrong some tell me. Yeah. Ok.

Who are/were the Ooma White Rabbits

There is the San Antonio White Rabbit and there is the White Rabbit song. Why, there is even a White Rabbit in The Matrix part I! And then there is the Ooma White Rabbit.

Ooma White Rabbit are special breeds of people who have been selected to change the world as we know it.
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Each White Rabbit, receives a complete Ooma system for his or her home, inclusive of the platform devices; an Ooma Hub for his or her central phone line; and an Ooma Scout for each additional active phone extension.

Every White Rabbit, in addition to receiving a complete Ooma system, is provided with three Ooma "pass along chips" to send to friends. The "pass along chips" prompt the recipient to go to http://go.ooma.com to enter the code on the chip and register to receive a free Ooma system.
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people will pay to get the White Rabbit token now, but won't they just pay for anything these days...?

Where is it going?

Ooma's creators spent two and a half years on a product they think is significantly different from anything else out there. No doubt its the only VOIP company that offers free service for life, But in a world where a company with 200,000 customers and $80m goes down the drain within a week (a.k.a SunRocket), a lot needs to be proved in the VOIP services arena to gain the consumer's confidence.

Ooma's profits are based on their hardware margins as well as the density and size of their network of consumers. This makes an interesting combination - with higher number of subscribers the cost of the sustaining comes down exponentially.

A few question yet to be answered and to be considered before you invest in the Ooma box -
1. How long with the Ooma box last? Will it be replaced with a new one for free if t stops working after 2 years?
2. Is Ooma safe from IP patent infringements?
3. Can I transfer my Ooma service to someone else easily?

The White Rabbit is Alive!

Ooma makes the news of the day. The secret of the White Rabbit is out.

While other VOIP providers like SunRocket (which just died) and Vonage are stuggling to find their feet, it wasn't very intuitive of the VOIP genius Andrew Frame to put in 27 mmmmillion dollars into another one of those pay-once-always-free firms.

Ooma differentiates itself from other monthly-payment VOIP providers by charging a one time only fee of $399 for the Ooma box. Once installed you have lifetime free local and long distance calling in the US. Calls to outside of US would still be charged at the same rate as any other VOIP service, in pennies.

Life time free?! No, I'm not kidding! Ooma does this by using the existing PSTN infrastructure in addition to VOIP telephony over internet. The exact details are yet to be seen, but it is exciting.

Is the white rabbit here to stay? Lets wait for the numbers. They've begun their marketing using the Joost strategy, giving out the Ooma boxes by invitation only. And they have a reason for doing that - they want to control the zip codes that get the first few set of boxes as that will determine the reach of the service.

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