My Ooma just arrrived. Sorry, I can't resist saving money any longer.
Lets do the simple math. Ooma Telo is $199.99 on Amazon right now. Premier service with free number port is $119.99 for 1 year, with $11.99 regulatory fee recovering (starts from the second year, but I'll count it in right away). For one year of usage the price is $331.97.
Lets do the Vonage math. Nothing counts (I already got the whole set), but the monthly fee. I'm paying $33.13 total for $24.99 plan in Los Angeles county. (That's a lot of different fees!) The annual usage of the plan would be $397.56.
So Ooma wins. If even I'll change Vonage to annual plan with $59.98 (20%) of savings, it's still $337.58, more expensive then Ooma. And the second year is when we're either making (Ooma) or loosing (Vonage) money.
I can also downgrade Ooma to the basic plan, still have all the features (but the call forwarding when the device is offline), and pay $11.99 a year. With Vonage, the second year is still $300+ more. And so on and so forth.
By the way, I am not going to use either Vonage or Ooma much. That's why keeping the costs as low as possible is very important.
Do your math, stop wasting money for something with no value. P.S. And Ooma looks better. Even if I keep it hidden in the closet, it's always nice to know. :)
