Installing and using ooma/telo right away!
This may have been offered previously , but I was able to install and use my landline tel number right after installation and before “porting”. My landline service package has the ‘call forwarding’ feature. You can take advantage of this feature.
1) Install the telo with only a simple wired handset attached.
2) Verifiy that the ooma number worked by calling into the new ooma from your cell or land line.
3) Next activate the call forwarding feature on my local landline service and forward all calls to the new ooma number.
4) Go outside and locate your phone company’s TPI box (telephone protection interface). Open the box and unplug the house service from the landline feed. (All TPI’s have a simple door that opens with a screwdriver.
5) Then unplug the simple wired handset from the telo, and replace it by connecting the house wiring to the ooma telo.
Bingo -
Now any calls to my landline number are now forwarded to my ooma number as I wait for the “porting” to take place. Better yet – all calls made from any phone in the house are now carried by my ooma voip service. Whether it takes 2 days or 4 weeks for the porting to occur, I have the full benefit of inbound to my landline number as it was and all outbound calls being carried by ooma.
This may have been offered previously , but I was able to install and use my landline tel number right after installation and before “porting”. My landline service package has the ‘call forwarding’ feature. You can take advantage of this feature.
1) Install the telo with only a simple wired handset attached.
2) Verifiy that the ooma number worked by calling into the new ooma from your cell or land line.
3) Next activate the call forwarding feature on my local landline service and forward all calls to the new ooma number.
4) Go outside and locate your phone company’s TPI box (telephone protection interface). Open the box and unplug the house service from the landline feed. (All TPI’s have a simple door that opens with a screwdriver.
5) Then unplug the simple wired handset from the telo, and replace it by connecting the house wiring to the ooma telo.
Bingo -
Now any calls to my landline number are now forwarded to my ooma number as I wait for the “porting” to take place. Better yet – all calls made from any phone in the house are now carried by my ooma voip service. Whether it takes 2 days or 4 weeks for the porting to occur, I have the full benefit of inbound to my landline number as it was and all outbound calls being carried by ooma.