SJMaye said:After reading some reviews I am a little confused. With Ooma can regular cordless phones be connected to the system or can you only use the Ooma device to make and receive calls?

All of your existing phones will work with the Ooma system. I've been extremely pleased with my Ooma and especially the Premier service. I LOVE the blacklist feature. Best thing to stop junk calls ever!

I bought it for $190 plus $50 international credit........though there is some disturbance in the background...not the best quality.

fatlard said:kittunni said:(me) Waiting for their new DECT device...

This may take a while.

Really? Thought it was scheduled to be in the next couple of months. If it is going to take more than that, I will jump on this one now, and return it later.

The Telo device is sexy.

I think if you connect Ooma to one jack in the house, all the other connected jacks will automatically be on your Ooma system. Can anyone verify this?

xceebeex said:I really wish I knew how long ooma would stay in business. I currently have Vonage, but I would hate to switch to ooma to get free phone service for "life" only to find out they are either bought out (and free service is no longer provided) or they completely go out of business.

It seems they soley rely on hardware sales and the premium upgrade to make money. If too many people buy this system and just use the core capabilities I can see them going out of business fast.Understand going in that purchasing this is a gamble that you'll get $219 worth of phone service out of it while the company lasts.

So when you buy it, sign up for Ooma Premier and do your part to keep that from happening!

This is not like regular VOIP. I think that can use this on dry loop dsl, so no need for a phone line at all.

So far this is the best price I've seen right now.

Best price? Hardly.

The ooma hub (the bigger box) connects to your broadband modem, and a regular phone plugs into the hub. That's the simplest setup and is all some users need. (By the way, for best call quality, always plug the ooma hub directly into your broadband modem, and then plug your router into the ooma.)

If you happen to have a multi-handset cordless phone, you can plug the base into the hub and place the other handsets wherever you like.

If you have phone service provided by another provider, whether landline or VOIP, the hub has a special "wall" port that you connect to a phone jack. Then you'd place the ooma "Scout" device elsewhere in the house and connect its special "wall" port to a phone jack too. Then plug a regular phone into the Scout; that phone is now an ooma phone too. The hub usually comes with one Scout; additional Scouts retail for about $70. Their documentation & website imply you need a Scout for each additional location in the house, but this isn't necessarily true:

If (and ONLY if) your phone jacks are NOT connected to any other telephone service provider (landline or VOIP), you can connect the "phone" port on the ooma hub to a phone jack, and all the phones in the house become ooma phones without using a Scout at all. This possibility is not really described in their documentation or website, but tech support confirmed it before I bought one, and I have it set up and working perfectly. The only downside to this setup is that you can't use the Scout like a little answering machine without doing a little rewiring of phone jacks. ONLY attempt this setup if your phone lines are physically disconnected from the phone company, at the box on the outside of the house.

(Edit - clarified a few details.)

i ordered it from Amazon.com 2 days ago. but it wont arrive until JULY 31. thats about 18 days later.
free shipping sucks...

PSOASMINOR said:i ordered it from Amazon.com 2 days ago. but it wont arrive until JULY 31. thats about 18 days later.
free shipping sucks...
I ordered from Costco, it was shipped already.