VOIP provider JAJAH has just got a welcome boost via a deal with Yahoo that will see JAJAH power premium voice on Yahoo Messenger.
Under the deal, JAJAH will provide its proprietary telephony infrastructure, payment processing, and customer care to Yahoo Messenger users using the platform for receiving calls from the PSTN network, or for making calls to land lines and mobile phones.
The announcement coincides with JAJAH moving into new territory as an indirect to consumer provider as well as its direct to market service. Yahoo is the first major U.S. technology customer/partner of JAJAH’s Managed Services and JAJAH told TechCrunch that they expect to announce new partners including landline operators, cable companies and mobile carriers in the coming weeks.
JAJAH’s existing VOIP service recently passed the 10 million user mark.
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It looks like Sequoia Capital is going to have a conflict with two of their portfolio companies.
1) Jajah
2) RingCentral
The Jajah deal with Yahoo is a major black eye to RingCentral. On the surface Jajah is consumer focused and RingCentral is business focused. But, Jajah has been developing a robust advanced voice platform that will compete with RingCentral. Now Jajah will have 110 MILLION customers and RingCentral less than 100K customer. OUCH!!!!!!
Congrats to the Jajah team! They are a bunch of hard workers, and deserve this.
That’s big huh! Another step ahead… and forward to a great partnership. I’m sure they deserve each other. A business wise venture.
I think 95% of VoIP traffic worldwide is Skype traffic.
Jajah et al have to play in the remaining 5%
There is a good reason for that and this deal is not going to make a difference in the short term, especially with Yahoo struggling to stay in one piece.
Someone has to counter the hype.
So Yahoo messenger has got enough muscle from Jajah to truly compete with likes of Skype. Good move. Well done YM and Jajah.
Yahoo! has been very active after its acquisition proposals from MS, I wonder whats going on with them laterly.. to many service launches and now with this. No wonder.. Yahoo! guys aren’t sleeping anymore..!
Congrats to Jajah Team! Thats a formidable deal with Yahoooooo!!
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A bold move by Yahoo to compete with Skype and a huge congrats to Jajah on the victory. I’d like to say in response to Graham Bell (above) I don’t think it is a sticky situation for Sequoia. The company target markets differ and if both end up controlling significant portions the social and business VoIP market, a merger could happen as well. I just don’t think they will be stealing each other’s business given the product offering and typical consumer.
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This is a great move for Jajah, and for Yahoo. Jajah gets to manage Yahoos voice traffic over their global infrastructure and Yahoo gets to focus on their core businesses.
Congratulations Jajah. Excellent move.
Nice to hear for JaJah, but we shouldn’t read too much into it. They’re as vulnerable as any other service provider whose customer owns the end-users, only now 90+% of their traffic will come from one source (normally, companies start to get jittery when one customer makes up more than 10% of their business). As long as Yahoo only takes advantage of lowest-common-denominator features (which they seem to be doing), switching costs could be quite low.
RingCentral has a broader feature set, but their VOIP call quality is inconsistent so far. Too bad - I’m a customer, and I’m rooting for them.
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I got scamed by Jajah once. They charged me $80 for 3 calls which should have be $8. Skype even though there are woned by ebay never overcharged me and so didn’t Gizmo5 which I consider the best of the bunch. They use the sip protocoll and together with grandcentral you get free USA and Canda calling.
Jajah is not a VoIP company like Skype. They do web triggered callback. They call themselves a VoIP company and are constantly reported as one, but their service is just callback.
Never the less, they have picked up plenty of customers, and this is a great deal for them.
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Nice move by Yahoo. However they will need to clean up the Jajah house which didn’t have the brightest reputation among VoIP providers….