Switching Phone companies

In my continued quest for reducing our monthly fixed expenses, we have decided to 86 Vonage for ooma!  After reviewing our home phone needs and how much we actually use the phone, this made perfect sense.  And if you read some of the reviews on ooma (here and here), the call quality is actually better then Vonage.

Now for the additional savings!  Our monthly charges for Vonage are $35 with taxes.  Upfront costs for ooma were $229.  That’s all I have to pay for ooma, unless I want their premium package.   Also since I purchased this at Costco, they also threw in six months of free premium services from ooma, which I will more than likely cancel after six months.  One cool thing about this being included is that transferring our phone number from Vonage will be free, rather than paying the $40 that ooma changes if you have their basic package.

Overall Savings?  ooma has a plug and chug app on their site to show you the total savings.  I’m going to save me another grand over three years! 

Now what are the risks with this?  Well ooma can pull a Sunrocket and just close shop leaving their customers in the dark.  I was one of those users, I loved Sunrocket!  Total risk though is $229 for me.  I could have signed a year contract with Vonage and they would have charged me $274 or something like that, but I instead decided to take a chance on ooma.

Any other ooma users out there?  What is your experience like with this VoIP company?