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Last week we finished porting our home number from our old phone service provider to Ooma. Ooma recommends you wait a day before calling your phone company to cancel service, so though we bought the Ooma Telo a few weeks ago, we’ve only used Ooma by itself this week.

If you don’t know what Ooma is, here’s a quote from their website:

Ooma is a revolutionary device that allows you to call anywhere in the U.S. for free. You pay only applicable taxes and fees. You can also make international calls for next to nothing. You don’t need a PC. Simply connect the device to your high-speed Internet and your existing phone, and that’s it. You’re ready to start calling and experience Ooma’s great voice quality.

We found out about it a few months ago while looking for an alternative to our home phone that didn’t involve using VOIP. (VOIP requires you to keep your computer turned on to make and receive calls, which makes your phone dependent on your internet speed and connection.) We’ve been paying about $40 a month for phone, in addition to our internet from the same company. The price for that package has crept up about $20 over the past year, due to strange little fees that Jack says don’t mean much except that the company is charging us for the cost of charging us.

So far, we like Ooma. The Multi-Ring feature allows to you decide which phones ring when someone calls. You can make your cell phone ring when someone calls your home, or have both phones ring. It comes with call log, voicemail and other features I won’t mention that allow you a bit of leeway concerning the calls you receive. We’ll save close to $500 on our phone service over the next 12 months alone, and even more money over time. If you don’t use Ooma, it would be worth your while to look into it.

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