You usually can pickup the equipment for about $175 on amazon when it’s on sale. Costco sells them too.
I’ve been pretty happy with switch to ooma. I use to use my cell phone all the time even at home, since I felt I had an unlimited plan on cell. Now with ooma, I pretty much use it all the time, which means I no longer really need an unlimited plan anyone on my cell.
If you do a lot of international dialing, rates are around 1cent to 2cents a minute.
The drawbacks on ooma are
1)Analog fax doesn’t work too well especially on older fax machines. Newer fax machines seems to take it ok, since they have modes to deal with VOIP landlines.
2)If you have a home burglar alarm that uses landline, you won’t be able to use OOMA with it. I use a radio and internet based security system so that’s not a problem for me.
3)You can pick up the box and take it where-ever you go you have internet access, even to a hotel if you really want to. The only thing you need to be aware is that if you make a 911 call from the box, the 911 dispatcher will think your address is the one you registered with the box. (You can change the 911 address, but it takes 24 hrs to refresh i think).
