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Topic: Answering machines, what do you use?
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Frank Angel
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 07-16-2013 08:09 AM
Jack, yes, Ooma can be set to only play out a message and not take a caller's message. Thing is, it's not as easy as you turning a switch yourself, either in the software or hardware. THEY have to set it to either configuration. You can only switch to either normal (play outgoing message/record incoming message) or just play outgoing by emailing them and requesting what you want. The default, of course, is the play-out/record-in setup.
I just checked on the maximum time allowed for the outgoing message and a tech just told me it is only 1.5 minutes, which I know can't be right because I have had messages on there longer than that. I asked another "chat" guy who told me it was 5 minutes. I haven't checked it myself at the moment, but I will. Obviously you need more than 1.5 minutes for this to work for announcing film info.
BTW, I had Vonage at home and to say I was not pleased is an understatement. The was voice quality was wanting -- people would tell me I was "breaking up" more times than I felt was acceptable; I finally ditched them. After them I tried Magic Jack, another VoIP service which was so atrocious that I finally had a Rage Against The Machines "moment" and found it surprisingly therapeutic to smash their little USB bob thing to smithereens with a very large, 3 lb ball-peen claw hammer.
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