ooma Adds Features to Enhance Google Voice™ Experience

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ooma, Inc. today announced a set of ooma Premier™ Google Voice Extensions (GVE) compatible with its current and future home phone systems planned for summer release. ooma simplifies the Google Voice user experience, enabling consumers to take advantage of the complementary capabilities found in both offerings, for a truly integrated and seamless phone experience – regardless of phone type or location.

“We look forward to enhancing the features of Google Voice for our current and future ooma Premier customers.”

“When consumers combine Google Voice with ooma in the home, they realize superior voice communication functionality with the greatest cost savings of any personal unified communications system available today,” said Rich Buchanan, chief marketing officer at ooma. “We look forward to enhancing the features of Google Voice for our current and future ooma Premier customers.”

Some of the features that make ooma the optimal home platform for Google Voice users include:

ooma GVE Outbound Caller ID Integration

ooma Premier Google Voice Extensions allows ooma users to display their Google Voice caller ID on outbound calls from ooma systems with no need to dial additional call prompts or 20 digit phone numbers.

ooma GVE SMS text integration

With ooma Telo™ handsets (available this coming August), Google Voice SMS messages may be displayed on the handsets in the home, not just on a cell phone.

ooma GVE Home Phone Integration

ooma Premier Google Voice Extensions allows calls sent to an ooma home phone to be forwarded directly to a Google Voice number for routing just as if the call were originally directed to a Google Voice number. This overcomes the limitation of not being able to port phone numbers to the Google Voice service. This is made possible by the patent-pending Instant Second Line™ feature found in ooma Premier.

ooma GVE Call Announce

In households where multiple Google Voice accounts exist, ooma Premier Google Voice Extensions can allow for different Google Voice accounts to forward calls directly to specific handsets in a home. The GVE Call Announce feature will also voice an announcement of who in the household the call is intended based on which Google Voice account originated the call.

ooma GVE Listen In feature

ooma Premier Google Voice extensions allows a user at home to monitor and intercept a voicemail as it is being left without dialing any additional call prompts.

ooma GVE One Touch Voice Mail

Ooma Premier Google Voice Extensions allows ooma users to access their Google Voice mailbox with a single touch of a button on an ooma Hub, Scout, or Telo handset. This eliminates the need to dial a Google Voice number and then password to gain access to voice mail.

An ooma system consists of the ooma Hub™ connected to a broadband connection and an existing home phone. The ooma Scout device extends the benefits of the ooma system to additional phone jacks in the home. The ooma system is a $249.99 hardware bundle that includes an ooma Hub and ooma Scout. ooma Premier is an optional level of service offering multiple advanced telephony features for the ooma system and costs $12.99 per month or $99.99 per year. ooma Telo is the second generation ooma hardware platform and will be available with optional DECT 6.0 wireless handsets in the third quarter of 2009.

The current ooma phone system is available in more than 1,000 Best Buy stores and other retail locations including, Datavision, Fry’s Electronics, Micro Center and J&R. Additionally, ooma is available for purchase at leading online destinations, including Amazon, BestBuy.com, Buy.com, Costco.com, Dell.com, JandR.com, NewEgg.com, PC Mall, Provantage, Shop Harmony, Tiger Direct, Staples.com, and Walmart.com.

About ooma

Founded in 2004, ooma represents the next logical step in home phone evolution. ooma delivers the reliability of traditional phone service with advanced telephony features that enable consumers to make free, unlimited calls anywhere in the US. ooma's product family includes premier phone systems that offer best in class services and calling capabilities. ooma is available in more than 1,000 retail and online destinations. For more information, go to www.ooma.com or blog.ooma.com.

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