Alot of OOMA deals are coming around. I thought I would post my VOIP phone experience
I just switched from AT&T CallVantage to VOIPO, promotional rate is $8.25/month which comes to $130/year with some taxes. I locked in for a year after 2 days of service, call quality is great.
This price gets you all of the features of OOMA premiere.
Setup was easy, plug it in and I had phone service. Web portal for your calls, forward VM to email or cellphone, etc, etc.
I use Roadrunner, middle of the road plan for internet service.
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The other day, I saw an ad for Voipo for $99/unlimited year when I did a Google search for Ooma. Then they added taxes and fees which brought it up to $135.
Message edited by: mjv5864 on 2009-07-09 06:55:16 CDT
Racerbob said:I shall stick with my $19.95 a year MagicJack. Been working great since we got it last November !
Agreed, we use our cell phones for most calls, but MagicJack works awesome for what we use i.. I was totally surprised, and expected to take it back before the 30 day money back guarantees up.
VOIPO is the VOIP arm of HostGator based in Texas. They are more or less like ViaTalk that is under HostRocket. It's a newer division so their control panel isn't all polished like ViaTalk, but it gets the job done very well (it's rather quite simplistic that some may like over regular interfaces). It's a bit bland for my tastes though. I just switched to them from AT&T CallVantage (which is winding down service this year).
So far they have been very responsive to tickets, easy to get on the phone, and most of all their support is based in the United States. So far no complaints and I'm happy with the $135.00 per year charge for services. I didn't pay a setup or equipment fee as well. They seem to be well liked in the VOIP forum on BroadbandReports (or DSLReports for those old timers).
I am now with Vonage, but hate doing the year phone service for 1 main reason.
I was a sunrocket customer, and was stuck in a major way when they went out of business, I know there were many FW that went down with me, and also many friends and family that we brought with us.
Personally I will not go to a VOIP unless there are some deep pockets behind them. (Yeah I know Vonage does not have that deep of pockets, but still they are decent in size).
Just a warning at the time Sunrocket was #2, and went down quickly in a burning pile of flames.
Can you (or others too) please share your hardware setup? Do you use SIP soft phones, linksys PAP2s? I haven't gotten my feet wet with voip really except for Skype and soft phones. But I'm looking to replace a lot of expensive landlines...at a small business and at a couple of homes.
glenatuf said:Can you (or others too) please share your hardware setup? Do you use SIP soft phones, linksys PAP2s? I haven't gotten my feet wet with voip really except for Skype and soft phones. But I'm looking to replace a lot of expensive landlines...at a small business and at a couple of homes.
I use a previous SunRocket unlocked InnoMedia 6328 connected to a regular 3 handset phone. It has 2 phone jacks so I think I can use it for a second line if I wanted to but I've never tried. It's setup to a gizmoproject account. I use to have service outages where I couldn't connect to the SIP server but over the past year, its been pretty good uptime. To be clear, it was the provider, not the hardware. Call quality is usually pretty clear on a 768/256kbps connection. In the past when I had asked SunRocket, their technicians told me 100kbps up and down per line should be sufficient.
I use to have a $10 prepaid balance with gizmoproject but didn't realize the calling cards expired after a year. Because I feel duped by them, I haven't bought another calling card and only use it for incoming calls which is free. If I want to call someone and think it will be a long call, I initiate it with a google voice conference call which calls both my party and the land line and counts as an incoming call.
We also have Vonage and are happy with the service.We call the UK often and it is free as well as other European countries.We also call Israel and are charged .02 a minute.Our phone bill is about $20 a month.How does voip compare?
Can you (or others too) please share your hardware setup? Do you use SIP soft phones, linksys PAP2s? I haven't gotten my feet wet with voip really except for Skype and soft phones. But I'm looking to replace a lot of expensive landlines...at a small business and at a couple of homes.
Thanks! -Glen
I have a regular phone. VOIPO uses a Linksys PAP2T telephone adapter. The setup terminal online suggests softphone support
Sunrocket failing was rather disappointing. Luckily a few other voip companies stepped up and took care of us victims. Now I run a MagicJack. For $20 a year it works great. If I was paying more I might complain a little. The issue I have is that from time to time the software gets unstable and the MagicJack has to be rebooted. On a very rare occasion I have to reboot the pc. The feature I love the most is my messages going to my email account. Earlier this week I got invited to google voice. That makes my setup even better with a second number linked to my MagicJack
Thanks. I went ahead and signed up. I currently have the Vonage 9.99 per month/100 minute plan but I found I hated to be so limited in the minutes per month and I was charged almost 5.00 extra in fees and taxes so VOIPO seems to be cheaper and I get unlimited minutes so I see this as a great improvement to what Vonage offered. The reviews seemed good so I took a chance. I had been with Vonage since 2005. Bye bye Vonage.
Can I send fax with the MagicJack? All I needed is a line to send fax sometimes since I use my cell phone most of the time anyway. Don't even need a home phone.
Qeyabe said:I am now with Vonage, but hate doing the year phone service for 1 main reason.
I was a sunrocket customer, and was stuck in a major way when they went out of business, I know there were many FW that went down with me, and also many friends and family that we brought with us.
Personally I will not go to a VOIP unless there are some deep pockets behind them. (Yeah I know Vonage does not have that deep of pockets, but still they are decent in size).
Just a warning at the time Sunrocket was #2, and went down quickly in a burning pile of flames. Same here brother.
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I just switched to them from AT&T CallVantage (which is winding down service this year).
