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ETP tries to provide you with some of the new and interesting products availaible on the market today, Now we would like to introduce you to OOMA, a new kind of VOIP service that boasts 3 years of free telephone service. They say 3 years because they may introduce a low cost plan after your initial 3 years of free service. Coupled with this are some nice privacy features, with some more unique abilites that we will discuss later on. Now, free yourself from a phone bill.

VIEW THE DEMONSTRATION

Take a look at what OOMA offers with its free service, which partners with your high-speed Internet and home phones to deliver:

Why bother with this type of system? Because Ooma (or you) won’t have to pay local phone companies to route calls or tarriffs on any calls. The is a significant part of the expense of running a VOIP company like Vonage or SunRocket. Indeed, the company hopes to offer customers unlimited free long distance if they buy its device. Ultimately, Ooma plans to charge a one-time fee for around $199 for a device providing unlimited long-distance calls thereafter. While more people buy a OOMA, prices will fall significantly.

For the system to work, Ooma must spread its devices far and wide, so that there are a sufficient number of devices in place to redirect Internet calls onto a local network. To build that user base, OOMA has launched a successful beta period in which it gave away devices to select users, whom it called White Rabbits.

Until a sufficient base is in place, Ooma plans to cover the costs that will accrue when users place long distance calls to a city or region where there are no other OOMA devices to receive and redirect them, a company spokeswoman said.

Still, this plan raises a number of questions: will users pay an up-front fee around $399 for unlimited phone service, especially given the recent SunRocket debacle? After all, many of SunRocket’s customers paid $199 for a year of unlimited phone service and face uncertain fates in light of the company’s closure. And if customers are willing to take a risk, is it worth the bother to save on long distance charges when they still must maintain local service?

OOMA VOIP Phone Adapter - Say Goodbye To Your Phone Company!
ooma is an award-winning product that gives you free home phone service. Quite simply, no more nickel and dime fees and no more monthly phone bills. Acclaimed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week, and featured as one of the year's hottest products in Parade and In Style magazines, ooma offers premium home phone service as it was meant to be. Your one-time purchase of the ooma Hub device partners with your high-speed Internet and your existing home phones to deliver.

The Amazing Disappearing Phone Bill
It doesn’t take a magician make your phone bills disappear. It just takes ooma’s free phone service and our new ooma VoIP Phone Adapter.

You’ll never pay a phone bill again!
Our new ooma VoIP Phone Adapter offers you the luxury of crystal clear telephone communications over the Internet and eliminates those exorbitant monthly phone bills that are taking giant chunks out of your budget. Once you purchase the award-winning ooma VoIP Phone Adapter, you’ll be able to talk all you want with absolutely no monthly charges. No more nickel and dime fees. No more hidden charges that slowly drain your checkbook. This attractive device pays for itself in no time at all. You’ll get unlimited calling in the U.S. and extremely low-cost international rates starting as low as a penny per minute. Plus, ooma gives you access to your voice mail from any phone, and the freedom to hear your voicemail and manage your account preferences in the ooma Lounge.

Acclaimed by the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week
And featured as one of the year’s hottest products in Parade and Style magazines - ooma delivers premium home service using your high-speed Internet connection. You can even use your existing home phones, and you can keep your own phone number for a low, one-time fee.

You’ll also get bundled features, including caller-ID, call waiting, and voice mail at no extra charge. And if you can test drive ooma’s enhanced calling features with your 60-day free trial of ooma Premier!

Simple set up gets you up and running with free home telephone service in no time at all.

The Advantages of ooma
Did you know that ooma is the only company in the history of the telecom industry that lets you own your own dial tone? And the ooma system has been created to deliver exceptional voice quality and reliability, giving you the same crisp, acoustic performance of a landline – without the associated fees. All you need is a high-speed Internet connection and a regular home phone. Unlike some of our competitors, the people you call do not need to own an ooma device. Ooma lets you call any number, anywhere in the United States without charge. A few exceptions do apply – ooma does not support 900 number calls and may not cover phone chat service. 411 calls cost 99 cents.Why pay for that when you can use Googles 1-800-GOOG-411 or Microsofts 1-800-Call-411 for your phone directory searches?

Please Note: For advanced extra features, an Ooma Monthly Service fee may be required. Please contact Ooma for exact details in regards to specific plans and desired extra features.

Smart and stylish, the ooma Hub and Scout partner with your high-speed Internet and your existing home phones to deliver free home phone service. Your one-time purchase eliminates monthly bills for US calling and delivers extremely low rates for international calls.

You'll also get bundled features at no extra charge. Want more? Test drive our enhanced calling features with your 60-day free trial of ooma Premier! Read below to find out how ooma can enrich your home phone experience, while saving you serious cash each and every month.

 The OOMA lounge is the online area you access which provides you with all the extra features and configurations of your OOMA device. During your first 30 days you will have access to all of OOMA's primere features which include:

Advanced Calling Although calling is free, your phone may not be. Talk when you want, with who you want, using ooma's advanced calling features!
	Instant Second Line Do your kids have the gift of gab? No problem! When you sign up for ooma Premier, you’ll get an Instant Second Line™ feature, which lets you make or take two simultaneous calls without the cost or hassle of installing a second line. So when your daughter's chatting with her BFF (i.e., best friend forever), simply pick up another phone and you’ll get a fresh ooma dialtone.
	Three-way conferencing Need to make dinner plans with two of your friends? We've got you covered. ooma makes three-way calling simple! Once you're on a call, press the second line button to make or take a second call. Press down both line buttons at once, and you've got yourself a conference call!
	Multi-Ring Constantly on the go? With ooma's Multi-Ring feature, you can configure your ooma system to simultaneously ring or forward to your mobile phone or any phone number you choose. Whether at home or on the road, you'll never need to miss a call.   See it in action
Enhanced Voicemail Your time is precious. Make every call count with these features for the Broadband Answering Machine.
	Message screening Don't recognize the caller-ID? Just let your ooma system pick up the call and listen in as the caller's message is played out through the speakers on your ooma device. If it turns out you want to take the call, just pick up the phone and connect instantly.
	Send to Voicemail Don’t have a pen and paper handy to jot down a note or directions to a party? Transfer a call to voicemail by pressing the “Send to Voicemail” button any time after you say hello.
	Voicemail forwarding Enjoy the ultimate convenience of having your voicemail messages forwarded to your email. Now you can listen to messages from your favorite mobile or desktop email client.   See it in action
	Do Not Disturb Get some peace and quiet whenever you want. Simply press the envelope icon for two seconds and all your calls will roll into voicemail without ringing. You'll still see a blinking light when new messages come in. To deactivate Do Not Disturb, hold down the envelope icon for two more seconds.
Privacy Home is your haven and ooma wants to help you keep it that way. Stop unwanted callers dead in their tracks!
	Personal Blacklist  ooma can now be your personal bouncer. Review your call logs in the Lounge. For anyone who doesn't make the cut, add them to your blacklist. They'll get bounced next time they call. You have the option to block them completely or send them straight to voicemail. For a limited time, take advantage of our sneak preview of this feature, for all ooma users!   See it in action
	Community Blacklist  Harness the power of the ooma calling community and block unwanted callers. Think of it as Survivor for telespammers. As other ooma users vote callers "off the island" by adding them to their blacklist, we're there to tally up the votes. Combined with our sophisticated algorithms for detecting phone spamming patterns, and you've got the mother of all blacklists. Who needs the Do Not Call registry?
Personalization ooma helps you organize, manage and direct your calls for everyone in your home.
	Personal numbers ooma makes it easy to add phone numbers for your home office and all the members of your family. With ooma Premier, choose a second number anywhere in the US! Decide whether you want your number to ring and leave voicemail on all phones or just your personal ooma device. Need more than two numbers? The ooma system supports up to nine (additional monthly fee applies).  See it in action
	Private voicemail Want privacy from snooping family? With ooma Premier, make any ooma device a private extension. What's more, you'll get a password-protected voicemail account to hear your messages online. You can also set up personal greetings, customize privacy settings, and control your voicemail notification or forwarding preferences.
	Custom ring patterns Isn't it time to quit playing receptionist for your way-too-popular kids? When you subscribe to ooma Premier, you can assign custom ring patterns for each of your personal numbers so you'll know which calls are for you.
Extras As a ooma Premier subscriber, you will have access to exclusive promotions and special offers!
	Transfer your number Want to keep your phone number? ooma will transfer your number from your current phone provider for free with an annual subscription to ooma Premier ($39.99 value).
	Be first in line As an ooma Premier subscriber, you'll get exclusive access to try out new features and hear about future promotions!

Primere users can have multiple different phone numbers. Logged in to the OOMA lounge you have the ability to add phone numbers to your OOMA phone service. DO you have family across the United States which call you often? Set up a phone number in their calling area so they do not have to pay toll fees. Want your company phone to be located in Washington D.C.? You can have that too just by choosing a phone number in that area code. Also you can choose different ring tones for each phone number to alert you which phone line is ringing.

You also have the ability to route all calls from any OOMA phone number to any other phone such as your cell phone. Or have your OOMA service send you text SMS to your cell phone or notify you by email when you recieve voice mail.

NOTE: When first setting up OOMA you get to input what you want your outbound caller ID to display. You could even have displayed "UNKNOWN" as your caller ID name. Those who believe they have a caller ID block (meaning callers have to input *67 to show your caller ID) will wonder why you are not getting blocked, in actuality, this is your caller ID! OOMA will allow you to change your caller ID for a one time fee per change of $9.00

One of the best parts about OOMA's premiere service is the unique ability to block unwanted calls, phone numbers, and add the power of community blocklists to stop unwated calls from ringing to your home or business. Once logged into the OOMA lounge, you have the ability to enable call blocklists. As you can see all it takes is for you to check the boxes to enable call block lists. If you havent yet, watch the blocklist video which demonstrates: Anonymous callers - Block those which try to hide their phone numbers from being visible to caller ID. Community Block lists - Block phone numbers which others have reported as being telemarketers or Robocallers, Custom Blocklists - Create your own custom blocklists of phone numbers which you o not want caling you.

Further, you have the ability to have any of the phone numbers on the blocklists either be blocked with an automatic voice notification to the caller or have the caller be sent directly to voice mail.

Check your Phone Logs - Logged in to the OOMA lounge, you can view all your incomming and outgoing phone logs. You have the ability to use these logs to block future calls from a specific number, adding them to your custom blocklist.

Caller-ID and Blocking Caller-ID

UDP 1194,  UDP 3480,  UDP 514,  UDP 49000-50000, 

TCP 443

Using an RJ-45 Network cable, you can connect a computer to the HOME port on back of the OOMA.

 Open your browser and type:  http://www.setup.ooma.com. This will bring you to the OOMA advanced setup screen. Here you can use custom network settings and adjust the QOS settings to your liking. This is completely optional, normally the OOMA device is set to DHCP enabling the OOMA to obtain an IP address automatically.

Can I use the ooma system internationally?

The ooma system can be used anywhere there is a high-speed Internet connection. Regardless of where you use it, calls to the US will be free and calls outside the US will be subject to low-cost international rates. If you plan to use the device overseas, be sure to use a phone that meets US standards, and be aware that the power supply that comes with the ooma Hub is built for US power specifications. Also, if you choose to install and use the ooma system outside the US, you'll be solely responsible for compliance with international laws and subject to all associated fees, taxes, tariffs, and legal penalties.