Jajah.com save international calls money by using web-activated telephony
About Jajah
Jajah is a VoIP (Voice over IP) provider, founded by Austrians Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes in 2005. The Jajah headquarters are located in Mountain View, CA, USA, and Luxembourg. Jajah maintains a development centre in Israel.
Jajah's primary service, Jajah Web, takes an approach called web-activated telephony, using VoIP to connect traditional phones (landline or mobile). Calls are made without download or user-installed software, and in most cases at rates lower than those of traditional phone companies or even free of charge.
History
- The first beta version of the Jajah Webphone, a proprietary peer-to-peer internet telephony (VoIP) softphone, was released in July 2005.
- In the fall of 2005 the company shifted its focus toward the development of a completely Web-based VoIP gateway.
- In October 2005 Jajah signed an undisclosed investment deal with Sequoia Capital.
- February 8 2006 Jajah Web version 1.0 (build 1708) released.
- In February 2006 ICQ co-founder Yair Goldfinger joins Jajah's Board of Directors.
- In April 2006 Jajah announced a cooperation with Opera web browser and Symbian operating systems.
- In June 2006 Jajah announced Free Global Calling, allowing free landline and mobile phone calls.
- September 12 2006 Jajah Web version 1.1 (build 1714) including conference calls
- In September 2006 Jajah introduced Jajah Mobile, allowing users to initiate a Jajah call directly from their mobile phone.
- January 9 2007 Jajah has 1.2 million users and will support Apple's iPhone.
- February 7 2007 Jajah Mobile Web is a version of the service optimized for mobile devices accessible via mobile.jajah.com
- March 14 2007 New release version 1.1 (build 1718) including Global Yellow Pages Search
- May 9 2007 Jajah announces $20M series C investment round with Intel Capital as lead investor BusinessWeek
- June 30 2009 Jajah announced launch of go Jajah local access number service in Italy. Go Jajah News
Jajah Web
Jajah Web connects existing traditional landline or mobile phones with calls that are set up via Jajah's Web site. Callers type in their own number and their desired destination number in a Web form. The Jajah service first rings the caller. After the caller picks up the phone the destination number is then dialled and the connection is established.
Jajah claims that their service works with any standard web browser. It does not require a broadband connection, nor is it necessary to be online when using the service, but it is necessary to have internet access to originate the call.
Dial-up internet users without a second phone line must schedule their call to be placed a few minutes in the future in order to allow for the time required to disconnect from their ISP and free up the phone line.
Jajah Free Global Calling
Jajah launched a service offering free calls globally on 28th June 2006. The service is limited to specified geographic areas, and Jajah has also adopted a Fair Use Policy which limit the amount of free Jajah calls.
Calls between registered Jajah users are free of charge for landline and mobile calls within the USA, Canada, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and apply also for landline calls to and within most European countries as well as Argentina, Australia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Venezuela and Zambia.
A further limitation is that scheduled calls and conference calls cannot be free.
Technology
The process of establishing calls between two regular landline or mobile phones via VoIP is shown below.
Services
- Conference Calls: Allows you to schedule and initiate conference calls on their Website without call-in numbers or passwords. Jajah calls all conference call participants at the set date and time (dial-out).
- Scheduled Calls: Allows to schedule a call to a the set date and time.
- Text message/SMS: The interface also allows to send text messages to one or multiple recipients.
- Dynamic Buttons Beta: Allows to place click-to-contact buttons on a website, blog, MySpace, eBay or any other social networking platform to initiate an anonymous call to the button owner
Tools
- Jajah Mobile: Allows the use of Jajah on certain cell phones.
- Outlook Plugin: Allows you to click-to-call phone numbers in your Outlook address book.
- Firefox Extension: The Firefox extension creates links to every phone number on a website and can be clicked directly to initiate a call. A pop-up window opens, and you can establish the call with Jajah. You can also enter a number in the toolbar to establish a call - download here.
- Mac OS X Address Book Plugin: Allows to right click (ctrl+click) a number in your Mac address book to open a Jajah window.
- Plaxo Outlook Toolbar: Allows to click-to-call phone numbers in your Outlook address book and offers all the Plaxo features.
- Mac OS X Widget: By user Greg Smithies download here
- Personalized Homepage Widgets: Widgets for personalized homepages at Google and Pageflakes
And now, Jajah promises to be integrated seamlessly into to the upcoming iPhone from Apple Inc.
See also
External links
- Jajah Web
- Corporate Blog
- MySpace Blog
- Business 2.0 about the service
- Review by Tom Keating
- Review by VoIP Service
- Promotion and information by Robin Good
- Jajah for dummies in podcast format
- BusinessWeek : Move Over, Skype: Intel's Backing Jajah
Address
- 2513 Charleston Road, Suite 102
- Mountain View, CA 94043
- United States
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