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While it's common in the consumer electronics industry to bemoan price erosion, even the most aggressive importers can't touch VoIP providers. They are literally giving it away.


Three recent announcements over the past three weeks underscore the dramatic shifts occurring in the home communications market. Late last month, Mountain View, Calif.-based Jajah announced that its members could call each other's landlines and mobile phones for free. A new service from Fusion Telecommunications International also debuted, rising to challenge Skype's free calling, while Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger (which offers inexpensive PC-to-landline calling and free PC-to-PC calls) went live on June 20.

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New kid on the block JaJah vows to overtake industry leader Skype within a year.


Technology darling Skype is facing stiff competition in the race to gain control of the potentially lucrative internet telephone call market.
This week, California-based telco JaJah will launch a service offering customers free local and international calls. Pitching their product as a simpler, safer and speedier solution, the nascent corporation claims that this is the first stage in a strategy designed to ultimately deliver zero-cost voice communications to all.

“We believe that basic telephony services should be secure, uncomplicated and free. They should incorporate the best aspects of the internet, mobile phones and landlines, and that is what we are beginning to offer customers across the UK,” says company founder Roman Scharf.
“We are doing for the telecoms industry what iTunes has done for the music business. Skype claims to have 1.5 million paying customers, but we will beat that in our first year.”

The JaJah service works using any existing telephone. Users log on to the service’s webpage, type in their own number then the number they want to call.
A few moments later, their own phone rings and, after a few seconds delay, the call is connected.

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JAJAH is the latest brainchild of founders Daniel Mattes and Roman Scharf. Inspired by the ideas of F. Jajah. Watamba, the two VoIP communication pioneers decided to realize their vision of a proprietary application that would cross existing communication borders.


JAJAH introduces global VoIP telephony between normal landline and mobile phones - without software download, installation process and headsets.


The beta version of a first JAJAH webphone client, launched in July 2005, scored an amazing success and allowed Daniel and Roman to build a unique team focused and dedicated to make their joint vision come true.


With the launch of the all new JAJAH in February 2006, the company introduced a revolutionary new concept of web activated telephony. Simple and cost-effective: JAJAH opens up the benefits of VoIP to all Internet users!