S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL | Your Kidding, right?
Because when I think of networking and telecommunications...I think Ashton Kutcher!
Although his Kelso character does remind me of Kevin Martin.
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·Comcast
| And just what the internet needs - another P2P application that will be blocked and/or slowed dowsn by ISPs across the country. Lay out your $399 bucks and then find out your system is always having problems.
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Count Zero
MD2Be
Premium
join:2007-01-18
Warner Robins, GA
 ·AT&T DSL Service
·Cox HSI
| Privacy?
Wait so essentially if I were to call a relative in Boston over the Ooma network it would go from my Ooma to someone in Boston's Ooma and then make a local POTS call to my relative who doesn't have Ooma.... what is to stop this random person in Boston from having another phone connected to their POTS line and listening in on my call? Count me out on this one!
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zenafu
join:2007-06-12
Brooklyn, NY | Ooma, Oprah, Ooma, Oprah.
That is all. |
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NJxxxJon
something good. or your mom.
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join:2005-10-22
00000 | Skype like?
Just Like Skype?!?!... |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
·Optimum Online
| reply to Count Zero
Re: Privacy?
said by Count Zero  :Wait so essentially if I were to call a relative in Boston over the Ooma network it would go from my Ooma to someone in Boston's Ooma and then make a local POTS call to my relative who doesn't have Ooma.... Not to mention it sounds like gram would see some random Boston Ooma user's caller-ID and likely not pick up the phone. |
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ninjatutle
Premium
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | reply to zenafu
Re: Ooma, Oprah, Ooma, Oprah.
Obama, Osama... |
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Ebolla
join:2005-09-28
Dracut, MA | oompa loompa? |
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jebba2005
join:2005-01-13
Portland, ME | ooma is doomed-aH |
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voipguy
join:2006-05-31
Forest Hills, NY
| reply to Count Zero
Re: Privacy?
That local call in Boston is made either using that unwitting volunteer's caller ID, or the caller ID is blocked.
If blocked, then calls to many places would not complete.
If not blocked, calls might be returned to the Boston customer's number rather than the desired one. I would give that Boston customer about 1 day before they pulled the plug!
The $399 up-front fee is so they can take your money and run. |
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wispagod
join:2001-06-28
House Springs, MO | reply to Count Zero
Damn you call 911 and they end up 500 miles away! |
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The Folsom
Kindly Shut Your Noise Hole.
Premium
join:2003-01-31
Yucaipa, CA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Verizon has no dry pairs in my area
They can't/won't even tell me when they will have one for my addy... so I'm stuck. I can't even use Vonage...
Die! Verizon! Die!
Those bastards...
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redshift
Premium
join:2004-03-23
Beverly Hills, CA | You can go barebones POTS and still get a cheap VOIP provider, and you probably would still have saved a lot more than using Verizon with regular service, not to mention a reliable 911 service, which is where POTS really shines. |
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MikePea
@verizon.net
| OOMA half-truths
Ooma continues to mislead the consumer by claims that are, maybe, half true. For example, their web site states:
"Most phone companies charge an extra monthly fee to let you see who's calling. Not ooma. If your phone has a caller-ID display, we'll enable this premium feature!"
In fact, you pay the phone company to send the calling-ID data through the phone line to your phone. There is nothing that Ooma can be to "enable" this feature, unless you pay the phone company, since the phone company does not send that data for free. What they are talking about may be the display of data for an Ooma to Ooma subscriber call, which must amount to a small fraction of a person's total calls. |
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