Inside phone calling start-up ooma

By Mercury News
Sunday, July 29th, 2007 at 8:57 pm in Inside Silicon Valley.

Free phone calls for life? Tech media and blogs were buzzing recently over the launch of ooma, a Palo Alto start-up that’s promising free phone calling, once you buy the $400 ooma box. In this interview with the Mercury News, CEO Andrew Frame explains how ooma works. And he answers questions about the cost of the box (they actually could have charged more, he says), the state of the Internet calling industry, ooma’s security and whether now is the right time to be launching a landline phone service. Frame also takes us on a tour of the start-up’s Palo Alto offices, where engineers design and work on the company’s devices.

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