Ooma

[vacationhopeful]

And HOW much money will you be saving each month?

I have now had my Ooma for over a year...still happy camper.

 

[Chrisky]

If we go with the Premier system we will save approx. $40.00 a month.

 

[LUVourMarriotts]

I'm aggresively investigating cutting the cord (or most of it). I need my high speed internet, as I work from home.

I was about to order Ooma, but then found that if you have a home security system, which we do, you can't use Ooma for that. Same with directTV, according to what I read. I also called my cable company, that I have a triple play package with right now. I currently pay $143.23 + tax per month for triple play. I have basic cable and lowest speed internet. If I were to drop my phone service only, my bill would go UP to $159.80 + tax per month. Funny how that works.

I also want to get rid of TV service and use streaming services. Based on what I am looking at doing, the whole thing will come out like this.

Hulu Plus 8/mo
MLB.TV 129/year
Netflix 8/mo
Ooma 4/mo
Ooma purchase 149/one time
Ooma port 39/one time
Security cell kit 7/mo
Security cell kit install 179/one time
Internet (bump up to 50MB/25MB) 65/mo

Totals:
$92/mo
$367/one time
$129/year

If I break down the one time fees into the first year, and add in the per month cost of the yearly service, my first year would come out to $133.33/mo. That's $10 cheaper per month, not including tax. Each subsequent year, a lot less.

Still in debate with my wife.

 

[rapmarks]

I am quite interested:
here is situation, cannot get cell phone service inside my house (my summer house where I spend 5 to 6 months). so I pay for phone and internet through frontier. I have Verizon cell phone. I get TV thru Christmas Mountain Cable for about 40 a month. when I go to florida, I have cable tv through homeowners maintenance fee from Comcast, I have internet thru Comcast which i pay outright, and i have phone thru Century Link.
would any of this technology work to replace landline and internet if I can't get service inside the Wisconsin home? I imagine it would work in Florida, but would I need to get Comcast internet for it to work?

 

[dioxide45]

I'm aggresively investigating cutting the cord (or most of it). I need my high speed internet, as I work from home.

I was about to order Ooma, but then found that if you have a home security system, which we do, you can't use Ooma for that. Same with directTV, according to what I read. I also called my cable company, that I have a triple play package with right now. I currently pay $143.23 + tax per month for triple play. I have basic cable and lowest speed internet. If I were to drop my phone service only, my bill would go UP to $159.80 + tax per month. Funny how that works.

I can't speak to Home Security but there is no issue using DirecTV with Ooma. If you want to hook it up to the phone line, you just need a splitter off the Ooma and connect your DTV box to that. If you have your DTV connected to the internet via a LAN cable, the phone connection is not even needed.

You may be able to contact your Home Security company and have them install a cell based call system instead of relying on the land line.

 

[persia]

How is Skype for a local phone service? We've got a Skype in number for the Australian (02) area code that we're using for communications in our move back to Sydney and are thinking of retaining it as a "land line" when we get there.

 

[Ken555]

How is Skype for a local phone service? We've got a Skype in number for the Australian (02) area code that we're using for communications in our move back to Sydney and are thinking of retaining it as a "land line" when we get there.

I've been pleased with Skype when traveling and don't see why it would be any different for a permanent solution. I went with Ooma a few years ago since it was a simpler solution but Skype is also fairly inexpensive and now I believe there are multiple hardware solutions which support it directly (I wouldn't want to rely on my computer for it).


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