A kids' landline from a company that already runs phone lines
Ooma has sold internet home phone service for over a decade, and MyPhone is that service made for kids. It launched on May 5, 2026, the first big phone company to answer Tin Can.
From Ooma's own photos: the phone on the desk, the base station on the books behind it.
What comes in the box
Two pieces. An Ooma base station connects to home Wi-Fi, or straight to the router with the included Ethernet cable. A corded trimline phone plugs into it. The phone has 13 one-touch speed-dial keys, a lighted keypad, redial and a ringer switch, and it comes with a sticker pack. Colors are blue, green, pink, black and white.
The base station does the internet work. The phone is an ordinary corded phone with no screen.
The kit is $99.99 at ooma.com, Walmart and B&H, and Costco sells it online to members. Service is $7.99 a month plus taxes and fees, no contract, and covers unlimited calls to the US, Canada and Mexico. A second line is free.
The parent controls a phone company thinks of
Set up takes about 15 minutes in the Ooma Setup app, then everything lives in the My Ooma web portal:
- Trusted Circle. Only listed contacts ring through, incoming only or both ways. You choose what everyone else hears: a blocked-call message, voicemail, a "number disconnected" tone, or ringing and then a busy signal.
- Quiet hours. Block incoming calls, or calls in both directions, with a different schedule for each day if you like. Calls during quiet hours go to voicemail.
- 911 with your address. You register the home address at setup, and 911 calls send it to dispatchers.
- 911 Alerts. When your kid dials 911, up to three people get a text or an email, with a custom message such as a health note. Dialing 611 tests it.
- Call log of incoming, outgoing and missed calls.
The pink phone, decorated with the stickers from the box.
Where it falls short
There is no free tier. Two kids with MyPhones each pay $7.99 a month to call each other, where two Tin Cans or two Pinwheel Home phones call free. And like every Wi-Fi landline, it needs power and internet. Ooma's own 911 terms say 911 does not work in an outage.
Walmart buyers give it 4.3 out of 5 across 26 ratings. The top critical review says the base station drops off Wi-Fi about every other day. The Ethernet port is the fix to try first.
For how it compares with Tin Can, Pinwheel Home, Wiley and the phones a kid carries, see the guide to every new kid phone.
