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Jajah: Not Lame At All!

Jajah logoJajah just became the latest to offer free telephony.  Their shtick?  Calls on the PSTN are free, between Jajah members, in a whack of countries.  If you’re calling between non-members, they cost not much, but a little more than some of the services which don’t have any free calling — about 3 cents / minute here in North America.

Yawn, right?

The interesting parts are the pieces you find when you dig deeper. 

  • First, they have a business account.  It’s just a regular Jajah account, but with a single bill.  What it means, though, is that your employees can install any of the Jajah Plaxo, Outlook, Mac, or Firefox toolbars, and immediately start calling from within applications.
  • Second, they provide a bunch of click to call buttons.  Your customers can click to reach you from a web page, and your ordinary phone will ring.
  • Third, they expose an API which you can use to integrate Jajah with any website or application. 
  • Fourth, scheduled calling.  You can schedule phone meetings easily from within Jajah too!

By focusing on generating a volume of users with free calling between Jajah subscribers, Jajah is going to quickly create a large “community” of users.  It will give them a user base to sell to quickly.  More importantly, though, is that this community is actually a directory of numbers.  To Jajah’s credit, they have a decent privacy policy which would prevent them from marketing this information to a third party. 

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