New Features - Personal Numbers and Private Voicemail

We’re delighted to announce the first of many breakthrough enhancements for your ooma system! Customers can now add multiple phone numbers and private voicemail accounts!

This means you can assign phone numbers for every member of your family! Each number can be set to ring on all the phones in your home or just on individual ooma devices. Now, when a phone call comes in for your talkative teenage daughter, only the phone connected to her Scout will ring, leaving the rest of your home in peace. All ooma Premier customers get to choose a second phone number in any calling area of the US. You can add up to eight additional phone numbers for $4.95 each per month.

Personal phone numbers come with a password-protected voicemail box and Lounge account to customize calling preferences, such as voicemail greetings and ring patterns.

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We’re also offering number porting for a one-time fee. So if you’ve been waiting to drop your landline and eliminate monthly bills for US calling and bundled features, now is the time! Reaction, so far, has been wildly enthusiastic:

“Delighted to say once my number was ported I no longer use a landline, loved calling to have my landline service disconnected,” said Mary R.

“Just ported my long time local number to ooma. Dumped Verizon!” praised Russell L.

Lastly, we hope you’ll take some time to explore our newly re-launched Web site at www.ooma.com. Let us know what you think! Your input keeps us on our toes!

Tags: New Features, ooma Lounge

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7 Comments

1. Robert | April 30, 2008 @ 8:47am

   What is the one-time cost of having a number ported over? Can you have several numbers ported over?

2. James Carney | April 30, 2008 @ 12:51pm

   go ooma you rock!!! no more bill

3. VBob | April 30, 2008 @ 1:51pm

   Hi Robert, the number porting fee is $79 per number. You can also port more than one number to the ooma system - you’ll just need to put in the request through ooma Support.

4. Cliff | May 3, 2008 @ 5:25pm

   Why am I not able to delete my voicemail messages in the trash folder? I thought this was going to be corrected with this ‘new ooma lounge’?

   Call Forwarding & Forward to a Specified Phone Number (cell phone) When Internet Connection is Down are pretty important features for VOIP phone service - are there plans to add these to ooma?

   Will we be able to access a log of all of our calls at some point soon?

   By the way. . . WE’RE LOVING OUR OOMA SERVICE!!!

5. VBob | May 6, 2008 @ 11:49am

   Hi Cliff, you can remove voicemail messages from the Lounge by right-clicking on the trash can and selecting “empty trash” This right-click isn’t very intuitive for web applications — we’re working on introducing some interface enhancements to make this more intuitive.

   Yep, call forwarding is on the development roadmap, as I mentioned in a recent ooma forums post:

   http://forums.ooma.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18

   Call logs are scheduled to be released with call forwarding, but it may be available before call forwarding features are released.

   Thanks!
   Bobby

6. Smitty | August 24, 2008 @ 10:42pm

   I live in a rural area with DSL at 1.5mpbs. If ooma runs on a p2p platform will my download speeds suffer when others are using my port? Also, how much will my download speeds decrease while I use the phone and the internet at the same time?

   Thanks.

7. VBob | August 25, 2008 @ 11:20am

   Hi Smitty, this post has some more details about how much bandwidth ooma allocates for a voice call (it’s about 32 Kbps per call):

   Forum Post

   -Bobby

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