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RadioDoc
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Better than a disposable cell phone!

"Ooma customers who maintain their landlines help enlarge the network by contributing their connections to a local calling area, allowing another ooma customer to use it to complete a call. Thanks to call-routing software, phone calls should not be affected if someone's line is being used by someone else."

Can't you imagine the possibilities when someone uses this for nefarious deeds? The poor sucker whose landline was the PSTN connection point is going to be squashed like a grape.

And then there are the fun Homeland Security aspects...

Pass.
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permalink · 2007-07-19 10:34:48 · Print · Reply to this

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Re: Better than a disposable cell phone!

My first thought too.
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Each Ooma box is part of Ooma’s network. The box in your home, for instance, might carry someone else’s phone call, though you can’t hear that call, and this doesn’t interfere with your own ability to make and receive calls whenever you want.
I'm sure nobody will hack that....
permalink · 2007-07-19 10:35:57 · Reply to this
RadioDoc
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Re: Better than a disposable cell phone!

Yep. And...while you're using Ooma to place your call using someone else's landline, someone else is terminating their call with your landline.

This makes total sense.
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permalink · 2007-07-19 10:47:32 · Reply to this
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Re: Better than a disposable cell phone!

Mextel and other international telecoms that charge high connection fees would be hurt by this if it went international. But with the inherit (apparent) insecurity I don't see how telecoms or gov'ts would allow this.
permalink · 2007-07-19 10:50:19 · Reply to this
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