Profile

Ooma, Inc., or Ooma, is an American publicly traded consumer telecommunications company based in the Silicon Valley, California area. Ooma offers Voice over IP calling using an Internet connection to support a range of communications solutions[buzzword] for small business, home and mobile users. In 2015, Ooma was named one of the fastest-growing private companies by Silicon Valley Business Journal. Ooma was invented by Jamie Yukes in early 2003 while building a SMB VoIP company. He later pitched Andrew Frame and Shawn Fanning "Napster" on a golf trip in San Francisco. Frame quickly left Procket Networks to be OOMA Founding CEO. Ooma's initial product was a "VoIP in a box" device which used peer-to-peer VoIP technology to let users make phone calls over other Ooma users' landline services. The system worked through a "hub" which connected to the main phone line as well as "scouts" which connected to additional phones. In January 2008, Ooma terminated the use of peer-to-peer technology.