“Build Your Own Ooma” Challenge
We invite any company that sees promise in Ooma’s recently announced “peer to peer” VoIP model to consider rolling such a service out on the PhoneGnome platform and see how it flies.
An Ooma-like service could be developed and deployed on the open PhoneGnome platform in a matter of weeks (if not days) using our patent-pending technology. Using the PhoneGnome platform removes many barriers over starting from scratch, including:
- No hardware R&D or fab costs.
- Zero hardware time-to-market factor
- Minimal software development – by leveraging existing PhoneGnome technology your efforts can focus on the “peer to peer termination” routing portion and get everything else free.
- An existing “seeded” market and hardware footprint
- Be in market in days or weeks, perhaps even before Ooma itself goes live in September
- Very low capital requirements: low risk, quickly evolve toward viability
We look forward to hearing from you: bizdev@televolution.com
If someone wants to challenge us as to whether deploying such a service this quickly is possible on the PhoneGnome platform, propose your stakes, and we’ll take that bet.
July 20th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Here is the major issue with this concept, it relies on being able to use some unsuspecting person’s local POTS line to complete the call. What happens if the remote end’s POTS line has an incoming call, would I get the call waiting tone, and would it be possible for me to answer that call? Another issue is CID, the person I am calling theoretically would be getting the CID of the POTS line I am “borrowing”. Then there is that chance the remote POTS line I am borrowing to hop-on the PSTN side with one that uses a measured rate plan (pay per minute, like cells), and that person would get pretty upset if someone else used up all him minuutes/money.
July 20th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Certainly these would have to be factors into a business plan based around any such “sharing” model.
July 21st, 2007 at 10:13 am
DocMCSE, Agree!
Also, there are other security concerns which I highlighted in my blog.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:25 pm
And I have detailed numerous technical, operational, security, and legal issues on my site ooma-revealed.info.