No Monthly Phone Bills with Ooma Telo

Landline phones in our homes: on the way to extinction along with the rotary dials of yesterday.

When raising a family, bills tend to pile up, especially a monthly landline phone bill. With most parents (and increasingly their kids) having cell phones, paying a home phone bill seems duplicative and frustrating. Yet the decision to remove a landline home phone often proves impractical for homes, like mine, with weak or intermittent cell reception.

Ooma Telo offers a way to reduce your home phone bill by installing this sleek, black, money-saving device. It connects to your existing broadband Internet and home telephone to deliver a more inexpensive phone service using the same handheld equipment. The one-time cost of purchasing the Telo allows you to make free calls to anywhere in the U.S. and eliminates the need for any monthly phone service.  The only charge pertains to taxes applicable in your specific area (usually around $4 a month).

Morover, Ooma Telo does not require settling for low quality calls or features.  The device delivers clear, reliable sound using PureVoice HD technology to reduce risk of faint or dropped calls.  Choose a new phone number or transfer your current one and enjoy regular caller-ID, call-waiting, 911, and Bluetooth services using the Telo.  Additionally, the Internet connection gives you the opportunity to access voicemails, phone records, and contact lists through the Ooma website.

So wave goodbye to those costly monthly phone bills, and hello to the new frontier of Internet phone calling.

Disclosure: Mom Central received a sample Ooma Telo  unit to facilitate this review.

Stacy DeBroff

Stacy DeBroff, founder and CEO of Mom Central.com and social and digital consultancy, Influence Central, is a social media strategist, attorney, and best-selling parenting author. A sought-after expert for national media, she trend-spots regularly with national brands and speaks frequently to national and international audiences on a wide range of subjects, including influencer marketing, social media, entrepreneurship, and consumer trends. A passionate cook, gardener, reader, and tennis player, she adores this new chapter of post-college-age parenting.