VoIP service provider JAJAH just recently turned three years old and is today announcing a more important milestone: according to the heavily-funded startup, the one billionth call connection on the JAJAH platform was made some time ago. Unsurprisingly, that call was actually made using Yahoo’s Voice service, which is powered by JAJAH after both companies forged a major partnership for VoIP services in April last year.
JAJAH CEO Trevor Healy says the service has attracted 25 million users since its launch, which means every user has on average made 40 calls through the company’s IP telephony platform if we use back-of-the-envelope calculations. By comparison, rival Skype boasts over 405 million registered users globally and in a recent press release claimed people have made more than 100 billion minutes worth of free Skype-to-Skype calls alone. Other competitors include Jaxtr, Truphone and Nimbuzz.
If you’re interested: the 1 billionth call was attributed to San Francisco resident Ila Vasudev Zeff, a 29 year-old woman who was calling her mother in India.
You used the correct term – Skype “claims” to have 400+ million “registered users”. In fact this “claim” has nothing whatsoever to do with actual users, it is the number of user accounts which have been registered since the very first pre-release of Skype. They do not attempt to identify duplicate accounts, abandoned, inactive, or otherwise unused accounts, or any of the millions of accounts which have been created by the spammers and pornographers who infest Skype space. The “real” number of active Skype users is most likely on the order of 10% of their “claim”.
I would not be surprised at that, I used Skype when it first came out, but after awhile I really had no need for it anymore…
And I have not used it since…
So I’m pretty sure there are millions of people like this, who have not used Skype in years.
Why would anybody use Jajah and not Skype?
Skype has the better concept. Jajah is just another low cost phone company at the end of the day.
Personally I know 100+ Skype user and not a single Jajah user.
Uhh, even broken links on their website… http://jajah.com/press/news/
I have found Jajah to be incredibly useful, of good quality and convenient for making international calls via my mobile phone. It connects up to any other landline or mobile phone at (from what I’ve seen) very competitive rates.
re: JAJAH in the deadpool?
The companies and their offers are very different.
Skype is free (primarily) direct to consumer, PC-based (primarily) voice/video/IM service.
JAJAH is a platform that enables other companies – including Yahoo! as mentioned in the story – to offer their own IP communication services.
JAJAH does also have a very successful consumer service which is chosen by people who want to make high quality, affordable long distance calls from their mobile/cell phone or landline.
Jajah is nice VoIP application and i m using it from last 4 months the beauty is features and user friendly interface the only thing missing is mobile back service, which one of their competitor Vopium is offering. Jajah should also go for that.
jajah and skype are too different ideas – interesting would be, how much jajah earns per call.
If you are making lot of international calls .. try Rebtel or localphone.com. They offer one of the cheapest and most convenient way to make calls.