By Doug Mohney, on February 8th, 2010
After two years as Ooma’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Rich “The Dude” Buchanan is departing the company for another project.
Buchanan, an advocate of HD voice via Ooma, announced his departure from Ooma via Twitter (@richbuchanan) on Sunday evening; the company has yet to make a formal statement of either Buchanan’s departure or his replacement. “It’s [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 11th, 2010
Note: Ooma is a sponsor of HD Voice News
At CES, Ooma (www.ooma.com) rolled out several new features and enhances services for its second-generation Telo system, including formally announcing “High Definition Voice.” Other additions include a double-packet-sending “Pure Voice” feature to provide enhanced voice reliability, mobile phone calling with the iPhone family, Bluetooth support, Google Voice [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 29th, 2009
Before I get wrapped up into the next two to three lists, I wanted to take the time to highlight the contribution and moral support both of HD Voice News sponsors have provided to “The Cause.”
Rich Buchanan of Ooma and Ari Rabban of phone.com both approached me, unsolicited, and expressed the desire to support the [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 28th, 2009
Editor’s note: ooma is a sponsor of this website
Ooma may want to chat with some of the radio stations conducting live reads for its recent on-air commercials. At least one show host in the D.C. described the service as “good as a land line” — an undersell of a product (telo) that provides G.722 wideband [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 7th, 2009
If the radio spot campaign in DC is any measure, ooma is not afraid to buy radio airtime. Commercials for the consumer (HD) voice service company have been playing on 106.7 “The Fan” since the company’s re-launch with Best Buy on October 1, with spots distributed throughout the day, starting during the mornings and throughout [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 6th, 2009
Doug Mohney will be in Phoenix (well, Glendale) Arizona next week for AstriCon 2009, October 13-15, 2009. If AstriCon’s history of surprises holds, keynotes given by Google open source programs manager Chris DiBona and Mike Smith, IBM’s CTO of its Server and Technology Group, should prove to deliver some surprises.
The Asterisk telephony “platform,” as Digium’s [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 29th, 2009
As the fall of 2009 arrives in North America, so will HD voice. Within days, Best Buy will be stocking telo, ooma’s second generation hardware, for the holiday shopping season. As the leaves fully change colors and approaching the Thanksgiving holiday, 8×8 will flip the switch on its Aastra software upgrade. Both events — one [...]
By Doug Mohney, on September 8th, 2009
Ooma was showing off its latest hardware at ITEXPO in Los Angeles last week. Telo, ooma’s second generation handset hardware, is expected to hit store shelves at the beginning of October – just in time for the start of the holiday shopping season. Ooma’s hardware is likely the most sophisticated consumer IP communications hardware shipping [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 26th, 2009
Enterprise: Ready
Consumer: Coming
SMB: A few
Mobile: Waiting
Vendors discussed/cited: ADTRAN, AudioCodes, Avaya, Cisco, Gigaset (Siemens), ooma, Polycom, snom
Enterprise: Ready
You don’t have to try very hard to find G.722 support for enterprise-grade IP phones. All of the usual suspects have G.722 codecs in one or more of their handset lines.
Avaya says all of its handsets already support G.722 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 23rd, 2009
Upstart embraces HD
2 providers queried/spoken to: ooma, Vonage
1 provider to offer HD voice service 3Q09: ooma
1 provider not currently planning to offer: Vonage
For Internet Telephone Service Providers (ITSPs), the consumer mass market is not a place for the faint of heart. Margins are slim, millions of customers are necessary to generate a profit, [...]
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