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Jajah, the Internet telephone company, has created a version of its service especially for the iPhone, and claims to the easiest way to avoid paying the punishing surcharge for iPhone international calls.
AT&T charges $4 a month just for the right to make international calls. Then, if you want to call London, you’ll have to pay 23 cents a minute. With Jajah, it is three cents a minute, and you don’t need to pay a surcharge.
We’re not aware of anyone else that makes it as easy as Jajah to make Internet calls straight from the iPhone. Other services, such as the Truphone, offer Internet calls, but they require WiFi — while Jajah can work off regular cellular service.
You can use the service via http://mobile.jajah.com
You do have to deal with one quirk: As with Jajah’s regular service, once you enter the number you want to dial, Jajah first calls you back to connect you with an Internet line, and then connects you with your intended recipient. It’s a minor change of habit that we’ve gotten used to, having used it.
It has a site explaining more at www.FreeYouriPhone.com.
6 Comments
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rk said:
Question has JaJah tested this extensively on iPhone? I thought iPhone is based on GPRS (data network radio link), if so GPRS based network has latency issue in handling VOIP packets on a IP network. AT&T can play with this latency even more. Also dataplan is limited XX G’s of bandwidth from AT&T.
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Michael Ossareh said:
RK: Jajah works by making POTS call to you and your recipient. The transport between the two POTS calls is over VOIP.
i.e. A calls B on jajah
Jajah calls A using POTS
Jajah calls VOIP from POTS-A to POTS-B
Jajah calls B using POTSor something similar.
So in essence you’re only ever using your normal plan minutes not any gprs data.
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Philip Inghelbrecht said:
I use a simple service called UWT and make my international calls on the cell anywhere inbetween 7c (UK) and 29c (India).
http://www.dial-abroad.org/uwt.htm
Great quality, easy billing, you can even pre-program your numbers. Not sure what all the hype for Jajah is about … stick to the easy working stuff :)
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Joe Blin said:
I use Jangl. Like JaJah but you don’t have to pay for it.
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VC said:
The best quality and lowest cost for international calls from cell phones is to call via a company like Reliance:
https://www.relianceindiacall.com/us/enterprise_service.aspxI have tried Jajah but have found that it is easier to be able to use Reliance since I just have to dial their toll-free number, followed by the international number…
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RK said:
Michael,
That is pretty clever of JaJah! but this brings up interesting question about upcoming 4G networks such as WiMax, LTE, and UMB. They have been harping about low latency need.
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