If you’re already enjoying the convenience of receiving your ooma voicemail in your e-mail or on your mobile phone – get ready for more. We’ve recently rolled out a couple highly useful enhancements to the voicemail forwarding feature:
1. New e-mail client support. We’ve expanded support for mobile e-mail clients. Now you can listen to your ooma voicemail from your Blackberry, iPhone or other mobile smartphone.
2. MP3 encoding. Voicemail attachments are now encoded in MP3 format, reducing the file size by more than half without sacrificing any quality.
These two enhancements are ready for use now. If don’t have voicemail forwarding enabled – go ahead and take it for a spin!
Voicemail forwarding is only available with ooma Premier service. If you’re interested in learning more about ooma’s enhanced voicemail features, visit ooma.com/premier.
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I own two Ooma devices for two separate properties I own.
I’ve mentioned before that I think Ooma Premiere has good features but is too expensive.
I would propose that if you have more than one Ooma device that you can get a “2 for 1″ on Premier… if that was the case (i.e. I could pay $10/month for Premier on both devices) I think that would just squeek under where I think the right pricepoint is.
Alternatively, of course, if you just wanted to get *a lot* more people to sign up for Premier, you could just make it $5/mo always, or you could do the full year pricing at $60 or two year pricing at $120.
One way or another, though, you will have to reduce the price of Premier to get me to sign up.
Added/enhanced features are nice, but they are not going to move the needle for me to sign up. Only price will.
I agree with Keith, Premium is just too damned expensive, I wouldn’t even think the $5 is low enough to get me to sign up, the cost of the set up to begin with is very expensive and I didn’t realize when I bought it that a lot of the features that are premium actually are. This is too bare bones and with the possibility that I will be charged more after 3 years of use, well, that bothers me, and then to get any useful features out of this unit I feel your hands trying to get into my pockets, You ain’t gonna get it, tho.. I refuse..
Damn you guys are cheap if you are complaining about paying $12 a month when you have your basic phone for free (after 6 months or so).
I am happy to have a low cost phone. With the option to have the added features for a low price.
Maybe you should sell one of your properties and splurge for ooma premiere.
HA!
Yeah, ooma is fast at emailing things that sell their product, but they are really slow at responding or not responding at all when you ask them a question regarding why their product don’t match with some home alarm systems.
So why have OOMA if I still need to keep a phone line with phone company to make my alarm system working. Isn’t the purpose having OOMA is to rid the phone company? I am too disappointed at OOMA to order anything else from them.
@Ron
As the user guides mention, you’ll need to maintain a landline IF your landline is being used by your alarm system for outbound calls.
Alarm systems, fax machines and other devices that use the phone line for data communication just don’t work well with VoIP systems due to their sensitivity transmitting over an IP network.
Sometimes you can get these devices to work, if you can configure your alarm system to dial “*99″ before the number, however they’re not guaranteed to work 100% of the time, which is why ooma recommends maintaining a landline for these devices.
Also, you may want to look at broadband-powered Alarm systems if you’re interested in ditching your landline.
I have to agree with Chad – $100 a year isn’t much, especially if you have use for two separate phone numbers. For me to get two phone lines from AT&T would be, with taxes and fees, about $60 a month, not including the cost of any long distance. I paid $200 for the Ooma system, so I’m out $300 total. That would be enough to cover 5 months of AT&T phone bills, plus I’m getting free long distance to boot.
As you can see, Premier is even cheaper than one AT&T phone line, and of course has a ton more features. Yeah, Ooma may raise their prices down the line, but even a couple of years at these prices is still a huge cost savings for me.
(No – I don’t work for Ooma!)
I felt ooma is grate However if they can reduce the premium package to 60 that will be grate and not only the subscribers but also their income will triple
After careful analysis, I feel that Ooma is the best option to save costs. However, I feel that Ooma needs to innovate and work harder to make it more cost effective. I am not in the situation described above where I need have two residences. Although it would have been great if there were 2-for-1 pricing for premier service, it seems reasonable to expect a discount for multiple lines… even if they’re not in the same location.
So far, it seems there is no perfect solution. But it seems like it wouldn’t be that hard to be the top dog in home VoIP.
Glad to see that this site works well on my Google phone , everything I want to do is functional. Thanks for keeping it up to date with the latest.