Jajah teams up with Yahoo Messenger, growing fast

MG Siegler | April 28th, 2008 |

Skype is the name that immediately jumps to mind when thinking of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls. This is mostly due to its longevity and its easy-to-use software client. With over 300 million users worldwide, it would be nearly impossible for an up-and-comer to get close. That’s what partnerships are for.

Jajah, the online telephone service, has just announced a partnership with Yahoo to bring its service to the over 90 million worldwide Yahoo Messenger users. All Phone-to-PC and PC-to-phone calls now made via Yahoo Messenger will be on behalf of Jajah, which promises high quality and low-costs to users in over 200 countries.

This partnership comes alongside news that Jajah has just signed up its 10 millionth customer on the eve of its 2nd birthday. This represents impressive growth considering that just last year, JaJah only had 2 million customers. The company hopes that other partners, along with Yahoo, will soon get on board with its new Jajah Managed Services for business.

Jajah often gets confused with the other “J” online calling services, Jaxtr and Jangl. Jangl and Jajah actually formed a partnership back in November.

Jajah, is backed by Sequoia Capital, and raised $20 million in a third round led by Intel Capital last year.

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2 Comments

  1. April 29th, 2008
    2:13 am

    Marc Fawzi said:

    Jajah uses call bridging as far as I know. Very different than Skype, which uses straight VoIP (PC to PC) or VoIP + PSTN termination (PC to phone.)

    Jajah bridges two regular phones and use VoIP for low cost transport.

    To use Skype, you need a microphone but the rates are very cheap so many people have invested in one.

    With JaJah you don’t need a microphone but you probably pay a little more because they have to go through the PSTN on both ends.

    When JaJah says they have 10M users, I doubt that they mean 10M users who use their service as actively as Skype users use Skype. Else, they’d publish the volume of traffic that passes through them, not the number of users.

    95% of all VoIP traffic belongs to Skype.

    So you’re left with 5% room for Jajah, all the J-something services, and the large number of VoIP transport providers out there who often carry traffic for wireless providers.

  2. April 30th, 2008
    12:38 pm

    Khrisztian said:

    Duh? Yahoo already offers VoIP calling through it’s IM client, and at lower rates than Skype.. with no connection fees.. JahJah is expensive compared to Yahoo’s current rates.. so….. what’s the point?

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