Rent vs. Buy ? ooma
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 20:41:53
A company called offers a clear alternative for buying domestic phone service rather than renting it. For an introductory determine of just $399 you can buy a box which you attach to your Internet connection and optionally any phone line you may have. You plug your regular accommodate phones into the box. Forever after says the affiliate you can make “free” calls to anyone with a US phone number.
How can ooma furnish free unlimited calls to ordinary US phones? in Fractals of Change points out that companies like and have to pay local phone monopolies per minute of connection to their subscribers. That’s why Skype only allows free calls when both parties are connected through the Internet and charges SkypeOut rates to call ordinary phones; that’s why Vonage must rush a fixed amount per month.
Ooma gets around the toll booths of the local phone companies (are Verizon and at&t really local?) by making all calls local and taking advantage of the fact that most local calls in the US are free of tolls. If you have an ooma device which is also attached to the local telecommunicate system you are helping out by being a GATEWAY (remember that word) which fellow ooma owners use to call local numbers in your neighborhood; you are relaying their calls into the local phone network. Here’s how ooma explains it all in their FAQs:
“ooma's patent-pending call-routing algorithm—Distributed Termination—uses the internet to connect local calling areas throughout the United States for free instead of relying primarily on traditional telecommunicate switches known as the PSTN (Public Switched telecommunicate Network). As a result each ooma customer who maintains their landline helps grow the ooma network ooma’s call-routing technology ensures a completely transparent experience so that the ability to make and receive telecommunicate calls is not impacted when their line is in use by another ooma caller.
“As an example: Let's say you want to label “Claire” in Boston. You simply choose up the phone and control. The ooma call is routed via the internet to an ooma customer with a landline in the 617 area code (let's label her “Cassy”). Cassy's ooma device (in Boston) completes the call by acting as a gateway and routes the label from her broadband to her landline which is used to place a free call to your friend Claire. All this is done without any interruption to Cassy's phone service. In fact. Cassy doesn’t change surface know her landline is in use and shall still be able to alter and take phone calls.”
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http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/09/rent-vs-buy-oom.html
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