Ooma Honored as Gold Stevie® Award Winner in 2016 American Business Awards

Palo Alto, CA - Thursday, May 5th, 2016

Ooma, Inc. (NYSE: OOMA), a leading smart business and home communications platform, was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Telecommunications category in the 14^th Annual American Business Awards.

The Ooma Telo is the smart choice for consumers to end the high monthly costs of home phone service. For a one-time purchase of $99.99, customers enjoy free calling throughout the U.S. with the quality of Ooma’s PureVoice® HD technology and a host of advanced features, from call screening and free Ooma-to-Ooma calling anywhere in the world to 911 text alerts and a free Ooma Mobile HD app.

“Ooma Telo is an exciting product that was well presented and supported,” said one the 250 professionals worldwide who participated in the judging process. “I am especially drawn to the fact that this works with cell phones to communicate to first responders in the event of an emergency. As a consumer who has two Amazon Echo devices in my home, I am excited about voice calling through Alexa.”

“Being a Gold Stevie® Award Winner in the 2016 American Business Awards^SM reinforces Ooma as a smart choice when it comes to home phone services,” said Jim Gustke, vice president of marketing at Ooma. “Our mission remains to deliver the highest quality and highest value phone service available while making the home phone an integral part of today’s connected home.”

The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. 

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Monday, June 20.

More than 250 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners. Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2016 Stevie winners are available at StevieAwards.com.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.