<![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> Hey Owen,

I think it's time for you to eat crow and admit you were wrong in your hasty assumptions.

Dont worry Thomas Howe is much smarter than you and he got it wrong as well.

Either way I win the Ooma bet.
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Cheers,
Dean Collins

dean.collins

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> Insane Dead on Arrival
Vonage has proven that even being first to market and with good service. Excllent management great pricing . There is no money to be made in VOIP unless you are already in a monopolly position like the cable companys. If you want free service try IPKall and Free World Dialup and its all totaly free

ajoele

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> Interesting that the column should be titled "deathwatch", which implies that ooma was alive in the first place. I think, rather, that it was DOA.

For many reason, which I have detailed at ooma-revealed.info, what ooma is offering is impossible to do in a way that would provide "free" service for life. In fact, their own web site says, in the "fine print", that "forever" is only guaranteed to be 3 years.

Even if the basic premise of using other people's phone lines to complete calls would work, the incentives (and possibilities) are there for everyone to disconnect their own landline from the ooma network, as well as to force every one of their own calls to go through an ooma Gateway, thus depriving ooma of any "free" termination points. ooma would then have to pay for every call termination.

MikePea

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> I totally thought that was Gob at first.

cheesy

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> A little late into the game and plus that $400 up front cost. Ouch.

dbinto

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> @AceKiller: No, I was wondering why Mossberg didn't point out that you could reduce your regular phone line to a basic plan for 911 -- and not buy an Ooma Hub at all, thereby saving yourself $399. He's usually better at spotting such obvious cost-saving opportunities.

Owen Thomas

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> @Jeremy: Nah...they still disconnect the pairs to recycle them. Cellphones still work even without service...'cept of course the JesusPhone.

AceKiller

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> @BH: I'll bet you an Ooma box (loser gets it) that Ashton Kutcher is not putting a cent into this company. He'll have equity in exchange for allowing them to bask in the attention-getting glow of his celebrity, and it's working. Back in the final days of the last dotcom boom, I worked for a tech company whose chairman was a well-known celebrity. He got 40% of the company for showing up to board meetings. It was no small source of satisfaction to me that my share and his share both ended up being worth exactly the same :)

daedalus3

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> Unless it's changed, you don't even need phone service to dial 911 - just plug your phone into a jack.

Jeremy

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> There is a restaurant in Artemas, PA called the Roadkill Cafe, their motto is "you kill em, we grill em". Think of it as the parallel universe counterpart to Bucks, maybe an appropriate place for startups to go after they file BK (cheap eats too).

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Ivan Ivanobrockovich

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> hah - for about 100 bucks less, you could scoop up a slightly larger device that does the same thing plus runs windows and openoffice at walmart...dumb. didn't know there was hollywood money in there, thanks for the headsup...now i know to run the fuck away when the mailers arrive..

ResearchZilla

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> I'm a very happy Vonage customer. I'd never switch to Ooma... at least Vonage provides some kind of a QoS... this layer 7 P2P stuff is highly unreliable.

Figaro

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> @AceKiller: I'd guess that most folks have their home telephone as a "very basic, low-cost plan, just for 911 and backup" already.

Good call on the deathwatch though, this is probably junk.

Rick

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> deathwatch might be a bit premature. ashton could do just a single cameo to keep the thing funded for a year..

bh

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> "The Hub does one clever thing: It lets you keep your existing wired phone line for 911 service and for backup during Internet outages. But you could do the same thing yourself by simply calling the phone company and signing up for its cheapest service.(I'm surprised, frankly, that the normally sharp Walt Mossberg didn't notice that fact.)"

You mean like: "If you do keep your standard service, you can reduce it to a very basic, low-cost plan, just for 911 and backup." quoted from the article? :-\

But more importantly, how come LinkSys didn't add this feature into THEIR product?

AceKiller

]]> <![CDATA[Why Ooma is dooma'd]]> Ya, the guy in the eight thousand dollar suit is TAKING ADVICE from a blogger who doesn't make that in a month. COME ON!!

sidhudgens

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