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2009-07-20T16:39:00.000-07:00

How Two Austrian Entrepreneurs Revolutionize VoIP

bridges vol. 22, July 2009 / Feature Articles

By Philipp Asen

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Dreams of greater independence and mobility have always inspired people to break the mold, leading to innovations to satisfy these demands. This has certainly been the case with Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes, two successful Austrian entrepreneurs and founders of JAJAH Corporation ¹ ,one of the most successful IT start-up companies of recent years, now headquartered in Mountain View in the heart of California’s famous Silicon Valley. Recently named a TiE50 award winner in May 2009, for being one of the most promising start-ups and “a leader in innovation, ingenuity, and management excellence,” JAJAH has also won the Alexander Graham Bell Award for Best Communication Solution, as well the Always On, and the Global Red Herring Award.

What are we talking about?

A simplified illustration of how JAJAH works

JAJAH is a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service that gives a user the potential to make long distance calls at much lower rates compared to standard phone lines, using the VoIP technology which delivers voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet. From this point of view it is similar to Skype, a pioneer within the VoIP sector. But what differentiates JAJAH from Skype, and doubtless is one of the main secrets of its success, is the fact that neither the caller nor the receiver needs anything but a phone – no headset, no software, no computer, and no broadband connection.

The idea behind JAJAH is both simple and brilliant: Once a call is initiated via JAJAH web, JAJAH calls back the caller as well as the intended receiver. The call is then routed through the calling party’s phone network (landline or mobile), to JAJAH’s servers, and then back out through the call receiver’s phone. JAJAH even allows a person to get a local number for international contacts, which permits the calling party to save the numbers in an address book and dial the number directly from his/her phone. Compared to Skype, mobility and flexibility are defined in a totally new way. JAJAH can be used from anywhere in the world, as long as there is a connection with an operator.

The two JAJAH founders: Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes

This principle was the decisive factor when Scharf and Mattes – who were introduced to each other by a common friend – committed to promoting their own company and taking on the market leader Skype. They envisioned the development of a competitive product including text messaging, video, and conference calls, that encourages the use of VoIP services but does not force its users to change their habits significantly. “Among our friends everybody knew Skype, but no one was actually using it, as none of them wanted to be bound to a computer and use a headset while making a telephone call,” Mattes remembers.

At that time, not only had both Scharf and Mattes successfully sold their former businesses, providing a financial basis to start with, but they seemed to complement each other perfectly in terms of their respective areas of expertise: Scharf had graduated from Vienna Business School and received an award for his thesis on “Environmental Management and Eco-Auditing.” After working for the European Commission, he worked as a management consultant, where he distinguished himself in the fields of project management, marketing, and business development.

By contrast, Mattes, who refers to Bill Gates as his role model and always wanted to work for Microsoft, was obsessed with computers and gained his first coding experience at age 12 with a Sinclair ZX81 – a present from his uncle for his confirmation. The Sinclair ZX81 was a home computer released in 1981 equipped with a processor running at a clock rate of 3.25 MHz and 1024 bytes equal to 1 KB RAM also serving as disk space. By comparison, a commercial PC has at least 100 GB of hard disk space (100,000,000 KB).

Daniel Mattes - Co-founder and Chairman of JAJAH Inc.

However most of Mattes’ school friends possessed the better, but more expensive, Commodore 64 for which it was possible to buy some games – still the best selling single personal computer model of all time, with total sales of more than 30 million units. In order to play games, Mattes’ only option was to read books about coding and programming and to develop his own little games. Due to the very limited memory of his computer (compared to the Commodore 64, it was 16 times smaller), Mattes wrote the codes as efficiently as possible to save bytes. Although only 17 years old, the high school student had already developed expertise in different program languages and started giving lessons in computer science for a company in Linz, Austria. After graduating from high school, already a recognized computer expert and winner of several developer contests, Mattes studied IT and business economics at the University of Linz. Early on, it became apparent that Mattes was unchallenged, as he already knew everything he was taught at university. He began to work for a small computer company during the day and pursued his studies in the evenings, until he was overwhelmed with work and dropped his studies. Under Mattes’ guidance, the company developed an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for smaller companies. An ERP system is a company-wide computer software system that coordinates and manages its business processes. Later on, he created another ERP system for a small computer company of a friend, which was (and still is) widely used in companies all over Europe. The eventual JAJAH founder realized that such a system could also be useful for the government in the area of public bidding. In those days public bids were required by law to be published in the Wiener Zeitung, a government-owned newspaper. He decided to create an online portal for public bids called Auftrag.at and successfully converted the Austrian government to its use by means of a legislative amendment. For his work, Mattes received the federal award of excellence for e-government and multimedia. Today Auftrag.at is still the number-one public bidding portal in Austria, and is also available in other European countries. In 2004 Mattes sold Auftrag.at to the Austrian government.

That same year, in December 2004, the two Austrians decided to found JAJAH Corporation as an Austrian company with limited liability based in Vienna. They hired three computer engineers and one person responsible for public relations; today JAJAH employs around 110 people. In April 2005 the first JAJAH soft phone was put online and something unexpected happened: When Scharf and Mattes came to their Vienna office several weeks later, they were inexplicably unable to access the Internet from their workstations.… What had actually happened was that a well-known Italian blogger called Robin Good had published an article about JAJAH with the headline “Skype Killer Offers Free VoIP, SMS and Videoconferencing: JAJAH”.

That was the beginning of an incredible success story. Due to the high degree of visibility and influence of the blogging site, more than 100,000 people started to download the software overnight, until their small local server broke down. “We didn’t expect anything like that. Our software had to be moved to a public server farm with a high bandwidth, it was really skyrocketing!” Mattes remembers with a big grin, adding: “Within a short time, we were able to show more than 700,000 users.”

Motivated by this unexpected success, the two Austrians started to seek additional funding and contacted some investors. Coincidentally Michael Moritz, one of the most successful venture capitalists at Sequoia Capital in California – a leading venture capital firm that has funded companies like Google, Yahoo!, Apple Computers, Cisco, Oracle, Youtube, and PayPal – noticed JAJAH at an airport. While waiting for his flight, a guy sitting next to Moritz was making a VoIP call and not using Skype, but JAJAH. “One of the advantages of our JAJAH client is the fact that it can be applied in networks with a low bandwidth, even with a dial-up modem. At that time the market leader Skype could only be used with a broadband connection,” Mattes explains.

JAJAH Headquarters - Mountain View California

Back in his office, Moritz wanted to get in touch with the JAJAH founders and sent them an e-mail. “We were blown away,” Mattes recalls. From then on everything moved very fast. After meeting with Sequoia Partner Haim Sadger in Vienna, the funding was a done deal. The only issue was that JAJAH was an Austrian company and Sequoia is not strongly featured on the European market. Thus, Scharf and Mattes spontaneously decided to move to the United States and build up their company in the former Google premises in the Silicon Valley, leaving Austria behind. The whole formation process happened within 21 days. “At the beginning we didn’t even have a bank account,” Mattes laughs and adds in the same breath: “Even though we had to build up everything from scratch, it was not difficult to move to the United States, because of the great support from the Sequoia connections. They provided us with Google lawyers, perfect offices, and of course the right contacts. Without such a network you are completely lost, I don’t think one can simply move to the US and expect to start a successful business with no local knowledge or contacts.”

Now the two entrepreneurs have committed themselves to supporting other Austrian start-ups that are interested in moving to the United States, and providing them with access to the Silicon Valley. Mattes confirms that it is very difficult for start-ups to find adequate financial support in Austria or even Europe, especially if the start-ups require high initial investments. “All the big companies required at least $10 to $15 million of funding in their first years to be able to successfully launch their businesses,” the IT expert adds, “and means of such magnitude are simply not that readily available in the European market.”

Staying ahead of the curve

JAJAH - Let's talk

One of JAJAH’s core strategies is their focus on innovations. The company has already become famous for the short time required to bring its new features to market. Mattes agrees: “It is absolutely important to be always on top of the game and to be a technological leader, because the competitors are never sleeping.” In this context, Mattes also has advice for potential entrepreneurs: ”Don’t wait to launch a 100-percent complete product, because your product will never reach that 100 percent. Be happy with a total completion of 80 percent, launch it, and come up with more innovations.”

With more than 400 million user accounts (some users may have more than one account), Skype is still the market leader in the consumer section, but the number of JAJAH users has already surpassed the 10 million mark. Apart from the consumer branch, JAJAH’s IP voice and messaging platform is focusing on partnerships with other service providers, Internet companies, and mobile carriers or enterprises. In April 2008, JAJAH announced a strategically important deal with Yahoo!, integrating its platform to provide the telephone infrastructure, payment processing, and customer care to Yahoo Messenger users. This coup yielded 97 million new users at one blow communication via JAJAH technology, and showed the enormous potential behind JAJAH. Currently, about 25 million individuals use JAJAH directly and on a regular basis.

There is absolutely no doubt that the two JAJAH founders, Scharf and Mattes, will come up with more innovations in the future. Just a few weeks ago, in June, JAJAH connected the historic one-billionth call since launching its platform. Despite their huge success in the US, Mattes confesses that he wants to return to Austria at some point in the future – meanwhile, JAJAH makes it very easy to keep in touch by phone.

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Philipp Asen has been studying business administration at the University of Innsbruck since 2005 and is currently writing his diploma thesis, which deals with the impact of cloud computing on small and medium-sized businesses.

References:

¹ JAJAH is a registered trademark of JAJAH inc. All rights reserved.
² AlwaysOn 2007 and AlwaysOn 2008

Original article at: http://tr.im/jajahportrait

2009-03-23T11:27:00.001-07:00

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2009-03-20T12:25:00.001-07:00

Great review of our services by Carrie-Ann Skinner at PC Advisor "Jajah is a VoIP service with a difference" http://ping.fm/u5kIb

2009-03-16T11:39:00.001-07:00

JAJAH now supports Canada - We provide JAJAH Direct local numbers for Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto - Try it out at http://tr.im/jajahdirect

2009-03-05T18:47:00.001-08:00

eComm '09 is over, great three days of insightful sessions, panels and networking - Thank you @leedryburgh http://tr.im/ecomm

2009-03-05T11:10:00.001-08:00

RT @tomgooden: I love Jajah. You can assign local tel.ph #'s to your contacts. Let's you call internationally for just pennies from mobile

2009-03-05T10:57:00.001-08:00

Great article 'VoIP Start-Ups Scramble To Find Niche' by Timothy Hay at The Wall Street Journal http://jajahurl.com/voipstartups #ecomm

2009-03-05T10:48:00.001-08:00

Our friends and partners at MobileTribe just announced the launch of a new client for BlackBerry smartphones http://tr.im/mobiletribe

2009-03-04T14:00:00.001-08:00

Coming up at eComm '09 - Panel with Jon Arnold 'Voice 2.0 - New Ways to Monetize Voice' with Trevor Healy, CEO of @jajah #ecomm

2009-03-03T14:53:00.001-08:00

More great sessions this afternoon at eComm, here are some amazing pictures by @duncan http://jajahurl.com/ecomm #ecomm http://tr.im/gZ85

2009-03-03T10:21:00.001-08:00

Örjan Johansson (Conveneer) tells us about how they reinvented mobile phone Internet connectivity http://ping.fm/Ffszc #ecomm

2009-03-02T13:42:00.001-08:00

Join us at eComm '09 - The Emerging Communications Conference, March 3-5, SFO Marriott, you can still register at http://ecommconf.com

2009-02-27T18:00:00.001-08:00

"Bravestorm Partners with JAJAH for Click-to-Call VoIP Software" by Anshu Shrivastava http://ping.fm/K1PjB - Have a great weekend :-)

2009-02-27T11:14:00.001-08:00

David LaGesse at US News "7 Ways Tech Can Save You a Bundle [...] Don't pay $20 a month for long-distance, use Jajah" http://tr.im/gQPR

2009-02-26T10:46:00.001-08:00

BoldCall partners with JAJAH to boost click to call software - Combination of voice and web connectivity is superior http://tr.im/boldcall

2009-02-25T12:28:00.001-08:00

Use JAJAH to make ultra low-cost international phone-to-phone calls from your mobile, no contract, no hassle http://tr.im/jajahdirect

2009-02-25T12:11:00.001-08:00

Only 1.5 hours until @tweetcontest gives away some $20 @jajah gift certificates. Check out http://jajahurl.com/tweetcontest for details

2009-02-19T17:46:00.001-08:00

Great article by Erik Linask "The VoIP Silver Bullet Has Become the Mobile UC Six-gun" at TMCnet http://jajahurl.com/silverbullet

2009-02-19T15:57:00.001-08:00

JAJAH expands it's mobile solution suite with mobile VoIP solutions for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian http://jajahurl.com/fylh

2009-02-17T17:31:00.001-08:00

"Customer Loyalty Shifts from Provider to Device" by Linda Hardesty at Communications Technology - http://ping.fm/5T4Qu

2009-02-17T10:54:00.001-08:00

Are carriers at an innovation dead end? @JAJAH releases 2009 Telecommunications Industry Index - http://jajahurl.com/carrierinnovation

2009-02-13T17:20:00.001-08:00

Say 'I love you' with JAJAH - If you can't be with your loved one this Valentine's Day, give them a call http://jajahurl.com/valentines

2009-02-09T14:49:00.001-08:00

Kevin Parrish at Tom's Guide "Forget iPhone, Add Calling to iPod Touch - iPhone without the two-year baggage?" http://jajahurl.com/x2ac

2009-02-09T13:39:00.001-08:00

Abbas at Technoogy Nerd wrote a great article "Turn Your iPod Touch into a Fully Functional Phone with Jajah!" http://jajahurl.com/tnerd

2009-02-09T12:10:00.001-08:00

Cyril Fussy at The Inquirer "L’iPod touch se met à téléphoner - Jajah a réussi à convertir l’iPod touch en iPhone" http://ping.fm/vPO0g

2009-02-06T17:39:00.001-08:00

Thank you everybody for tweeting and supporting http://tr.im/ipodtouch and don't forget to call your friends overseas http://tr.im/jajah

2009-02-03T15:53:00.001-08:00

RT @asaunders and @kencamp: Fully Featured Conference Calling on iPhone with Calliflower http://ping.fm/lONeV

2009-02-03T10:16:00.001-08:00

JaJah新服务：iPod touch变iPhone实现语音通话 by 【搜狐IT消息】- http://ping.fm/gLrIp

2009-01-30T13:16:00.001-08:00

Arik @ahess247 at BusinessWeek 'tweaked' our news "Turning the iPod touch into a fully functional mobile phone" http://jajahurl.com/arik

2009-01-28T18:32:00.001-08:00

Nice article by Bernhard Fischer at Wirtschaftblatt "Telefonie-Anbieter Jajah hat Umsatz verzehnfacht" http://jajahurl.com/wirtschaftsblatt

2009-01-28T12:22:00.001-08:00

"Bright Spots in Recession’s Gloom - Success Stories in Telecom and IT if You Look in the Right Places" by Richard Martin http://tr.im/dcoa

2009-01-26T21:59:00.001-08:00

Dean Elwood at VoIP User "iPod Touch VoIP from Jajah - positioning themselves in a space for voice applications" http://tr.im/cyvi - Thanks!

2009-01-23T17:17:00.001-08:00

That was a busy week, thank you everybody for the great feedback, thank you @scobleizer for the nice interview http://tr.im/scobleizer

2009-01-23T15:27:00.001-08:00

Thank you @Scobleizer for the interview opportunity and taking the time to visit us, it was a pleasure

2009-01-23T15:00:00.001-08:00

We are having a live interview with Robert Scoble @scobleizer at the @jajah hq right now, tune in http://ping.fm/94moo

2009-01-20T11:51:00.001-08:00

Interview with JAJAH CEO Trevor Healy by Kelly M. Teal at VON "JAJAH: Mobile VoIP Projects Fuel Significant Growth" http://ping.fm/OynWl

2009-01-08T15:21:00.001-08:00

Nice and detailed article by Rich Karpinski at TELEPHONY Online "Acme deploys 'open routing' with Jajah" http://jajahurl.com/4k2h

2009-01-08T09:28:00.001-08:00

JAJAH delivers wholesale VoIP services with Acme Packet - providing security and dynamic routing for our services http://jajahurl.com/acme

2009-01-08T09:23:00.001-08:00

Robert Poe collects the 'Top 25 VoIP Innovations of 2008' featuring our real-time translation service JAJAH Babel http://jajahurl.com/e8ft

2009-01-06T11:26:00.001-08:00

Thank you @nickgray @ny_haasje @simon_elliott @michaelbolling @thecolor @ugeerlings @jwesonga @alexdeleon @manishamusic for using @jajah

2008-12-27T00:39:00.001-08:00

We wish you all the best for the holidays and may 2009 bring an abundance of health, happiness, good fortune and joy to you

2008-12-19T10:17:00.001-08:00

Recession keeps more Americans home for holidays http://tr.im/2h2l - So simply grab your phone and give your family a call http://tr.im/2h2i

2008-12-19T09:16:00.001-08:00

JAJAH continues global expansion with new presence in Asia - We are seeing huge interest in the JAJAH platform http://ping.fm/cKQ8X

2008-12-17T18:03:00.001-08:00

"More Americans cutting the landline cord" by Steven Musil - Ditching traditional landlines in favor of cell phone service http://tr.im/2er0

2008-12-16T17:45:00.001-08:00

Join us tonight at the Microsoft @bizspark and @techset event at 7 pm in San Francisco, details and directions here http://tr.im/2bpz

2008-12-15T18:28:00.001-08:00

We are happy to be at part of the Microsoft BizSpark (http://jajahurl.com/4qkz) event tomorrow at 7 pm, details http://jajahurl.com/7jsc

2008-12-12T16:46:00.001-08:00

Jajah seems to have made its way from suspect startup to perhaps the strongest mobile VoIP company standing http://jajahurl.com/mobilevoip

2008-12-10T16:24:00.001-08:00

Who will win in Mobile VoIP? Jajah and Skype among the strongest competitors and best-positioned for long-term survival http://tr.im/24j7

2008-12-10T14:28:00.001-08:00

Thank you for nominating @jajah in the @shortyawards in #communications - We highly appreciate it!

2008-12-10T10:09:00.001-08:00

The poor economy is pushing many Americans to reconsider travel plans and revert to alternatives for holidays http://jajahurl.com/holidays

2008-12-09T11:10:00.001-08:00

There are vast opportunities for a ubiquitous integration of voice, but how will service providers get there? http://jajahurl.com/voiceapps

2008-12-08T11:52:00.001-08:00

Do you speak Chinese? I hope it's a good article :-) "JAJAH - 每周和好友免费通话19分钟的免费回拨电话" http://jajahurl.com/gpfq

2008-12-05T18:05:00.001-08:00

Nice article from the Brazilian newspaper Folha Online about the advantages of JAJAH http://jajahurl.com/l88l

2008-12-04T14:30:00.001-08:00

Thank you Jim for the kind words and great article - "Jajah: Hella Big VoIP Provider ... For Good Reason" http://jajahurl.com/44nu

2008-12-04T13:03:00.001-08:00

@PresenTense You can use JAJAH to initiate intl. conference calls http://tr.im/1uts or check out http://ping.fm/XHjg8 - Thanks @mycamp

2008-12-01T11:12:00.001-08:00

How does the current economic situation affect your holiday travel plans? It only takes one minute, thanks a lot http://jajahurl.com/vd7t

2008-11-26T15:39:00.001-08:00

Thanks again for all your valuable feedback and support http://ping.fm/3OdNo - Have a great Thanksgiving!

2008-11-25T12:49:00.001-08:00

Friend and journalist @tomforemski just published this great documentary about his work at 'Silicon Valley Watcher' http://tr.im/svwdocu

2008-11-25T11:32:00.001-08:00

@rww My fav mobile apps: @twidroid (Android)/@twitterfon (iPhone), Facebook, @my6sense (iPhone), @strands, @jajah http://iphone.jajah.com

2008-11-24T16:50:00.001-08:00

Thanks to @khlrqa - Maximilian Antoni's JAJAH Address Book Plug-In for Mac OS X is now published under GPL at Google Code http://is.gd/8QeH

2008-11-24T12:02:00.001-08:00

Retweet: "Thanking GOD for http://www.jajah.com" Thanks a lot @mclyte I'm glad you enjoy it. Let me know if you have any feedback/questions

2008-11-21T17:06:00.001-08:00

Slowly packing up stuff and taking off for the weekend, have a great weekend everybody! Give your friends a ring http://www.jajah.com ;-)

2008-11-20T10:01:00.001-08:00

Has anybody else received a call from search engine aggregator Leapfish http://www.leapfish.com (by DotNext) trying to sell you keyword ads?

2008-11-19T09:49:00.001-08:00

We would highly appreciate your support, pls vote for JAJAH in the @mashable Open Web Awards, category Mobile Applications http://tr.im/19gk

2008-11-18T17:26:00.001-08:00

Has anybody tried Doug's new iDialer v0.3 for Windows Mobile PocketPC phones? He apparently integrated JAJAH http://tr.im/idialer - Thanks!

2008-11-14T16:52:00.001-08:00

@MaxBeam: "Can't believe how much money I have saved on my phone bill with http://www.jajah.com so far :-)" Thank you Dan!

2008-11-13T18:22:00.001-08:00

Susann Wasikowski at Tipps-Archiv - das Computermagazin: "Guenstig telefonieren mit JAJAH" - Thanks http://jajahurl.com/77z6

2008-11-12T14:52:00.001-08:00

Peter Diedrich from JAJAH partner company Mobivox explains all the features of Mobivox and Mobivox|PL at #utr08 - http://www.mobivox.com

2008-11-12T13:49:00.001-08:00

Friend and JAJAH partner @asaunders has some exiting news on Calliflower http://ping.fm/XHjg8 at #utr08, more at http://tr.im/1129

2008-11-12T09:32:00.001-08:00

Breakfast with @my6sense at #utr08, dialplus and @goojet just presented their services, http://www.goojet.com and http://www.dialplus.net

2008-11-11T21:18:00.001-08:00

I'm gonna be at the "Under the Radar" conference tomorrow - Drop me a note if you would like to meet up http://tr.im/undertheradar

2008-11-10T17:47:00.001-08:00

JAJAH has been recognized as a leader in the IP communications industry, named "Top VoIP Company 2008". Thanks Doug http://ping.fm/SC1wd

2008-11-10T15:20:00.001-08:00

I'm really looking forward to meet a bunch of friends and post-telecom influencers at the eComm '09 dinner this Wed http://ping.fm/U1qJg

2008-11-07T16:22:00.001-08:00

Gattune! Tecnologia e Web: "Jajah; sem contrato, sem software, sem fones de ouvido" Thank you Calebe @calebeaires http://jajahurl.com/lkjh

2008-11-07T09:47:00.001-08:00

Meebo Launches Instant Messaging Application for the Android Market - Access all of your IM accounts through a single login http://tr.im/w1f

2008-11-06T09:48:00.001-08:00

VoIP on the T-Mobile G1 Google Android mobile phone via JAJAH Web and JAJAH Direct. This is how it works http://jajahurl.com/jeqj

VoIP on the T-Mobile G1 Android Phone

2008-11-06T09:21:00.000-08:00

T-Mobile recently launched the first Google Android powered mobile phone called G1. It's a great mobile phone with a ton of features, a full keyboard, a big touchscreen and a rising number of great applications. I got one the day it was launched and I have to say that I am very impressed, so if you don't have an iPhone yet and consider a new phone then I can absolutely recommend the new G1.

Even if I don't like to refer to JAJAH as a VoIP provider it is what we provide through our backend infrastructure and you can use JAJAH with your G1. JAJAH combines the best of two worlds: premium voice quality of a standard land line or cell phone and the cost savings of Internet telephony. It is the easiest way to make ultra-low cost long-distance and international phone calls right of your mobile phone, on any network and wherever you are.

There are two ways how to benefit from JAJAH with your G1 and frankly any other mobile phone:

1) JAJAH Mobile Web: You simply point your mobile browser to mobile.jajah.com type in the number you want to call or select the number in your JAJAH address book. JAJAH will initiate the call and connects you to the desired number anywhere in the world for just a few cents per minute (see our detailed rates here). Phone-to-phone and no WiFi or broadband connection required.

2) JAJAH Direct: You provide us the long-distance or international number that you call more frequently and we give you a number local to you to call instead. So you get a local number for each of your international or long-distance contacts and call them directly from your landline or cell phone. You can save the numbers to your phone and never dial long-distance again!

Example: I live in San Francisco and want to call my brother in Adelaide, Australia. I would usually dial the Australian number and pay dollars per minute, now I dial the unique local San Francisco number that JAJAH provided to me and is saved in my cell phone for just 3 cents per minute and it rings my brother's phone at the other side of the world.

You simply dial local and talk global (or long-distance)!

So enjoy the cost savings of Internet telephony while using your regular phone (landline or mobile/G1), there are no monthly and no connection fees and sign up is free. Try it out!

[tags: jajah, google, android, t-mobile, g1, voip, voice-over-ip, telephony]

2008-11-05T12:23:00.001-08:00

JAJAH was named "Top VoIP Company 2008" by FierceVoIP and shows how to use JAJAH on the T-Mobile G1 Android phone http://ping.fm/amu82

2008-11-05T10:26:00.001-08:00

Big equity fund gets bigger - Several buzz-making valley start-ups including Jajah are built on Microsoft http://ping.fm/ZXYms

2008-11-04T16:44:00.001-08:00

Following the first US election '08 results online via NY Times http://nytimes.com and CNN live stream http://www.cnn.com - Exciting!

2008-11-03T14:57:00.001-08:00

Welcoming the winners of "Jugend gründet" 2008/2009 at the JAJAH HQ http://www.jugend-gruendet.de

2008-10-31T16:44:00.001-07:00

Have a great Halloween weekend everybody, don't forget the time switch http://tr.im/switch and call your friends via http://tr.im/jajah ;-)

2008-10-28T10:00:00.001-07:00

"Internet Phoning for Lower Bills - VoIP comes of age as big providers enter the market" by David LaGesse at http://jajahurl.com/sr7j

2008-10-27T18:09:00.001-07:00

Twidroid - the first fully featured Twitter client for Android mobiles / G1 is now available. Developed by @thomas - http://tr.im/twidroid

2008-10-24T11:16:00.001-07:00

Hans Veldhuizen: "Jajah works perfect for making cheap international phone calls. I'm a long time happy customer" http://ping.fm/3zsRg

2008-10-21T15:47:00.001-07:00

Great list of the top social media network sites, 3 out of the top 5 VoIP tools are powered by JAJAH http://jajahurl.com/ym98

2008-10-21T15:45:00.001-07:00

Great list of the top social media network sites, 3 out of the top 5 VoIP tools are powered by JAJAH http://ping.fm/tU1w8

2008-10-21T13:07:00.001-07:00

Join us today at 6 pm for "Who Owns Social Media" held by the Social Media Club at the CNET HQ in San Francisco http://budurl.com/kzt3

2008-10-16T17:37:00.001-07:00

Jonathan provides a nice description on how to use our international calling services in his personal blog http://budurl.com/865k Thank you!

2008-10-16T10:51:00.001-07:00

Sequoia Capital presentation on startups and the economic downturn on October 7th for all Sequoia portfolio companies http://budurl.com/anem

2008-10-14T21:00:00.001-07:00

Checking out Strands, thanks to @drewolanoff - Join us at http://www.strands.com/jajah and if you would like an invite, drop me a note

2008-10-14T12:28:00.001-07:00

Just set up Momail on my regular Nokia 6300, fetching all my email accounts and making JAJAH calls, check it out at http://budurl.com/s3r5

2008-10-13T15:21:00.001-07:00

Join us for "Web Monday Silicon Valley" tonight at 6:30 in Palo Alto shaping the future of the Internet http://budurl.com/k5tm

2008-10-13T10:15:00.001-07:00

Momail and JAJAH Partner to Make Mobile IP Telephony Easier, Introducing Automatic Call Initiation Via Mobile Email - http://budurl.com/k5mh

2008-10-09T18:14:00.001-07:00

If you are interested in mobile email, data/profile portability and independent tech support experts, check out http://budurl.com/s3r5

2008-10-09T11:06:00.001-07:00

Three promising startups use JAJAH's API to add voice to their services - SupportSpace, Communipedia and Momail http://budurl.com/kz4x

2008-10-09T00:42:00.001-07:00

JAJAH Gives Voice To Global Innovators - SupportSpace in Israel, Communipedia in Germany and Momail in Sweden - http://budurl.com/neue

2008-10-08T16:42:00.001-07:00

Busy day with lots of good meetings, news for tomorrow morning - stay tuned! And join the conversation at http://ping.fm/4MJxX

2008-10-07T18:11:00.001-07:00

Second Presidential debate - Barack Obama and John McCain in Nashville - CNN live stream via http://ping.fm/XxLkx

2008-10-07T16:52:00.001-07:00

Very good article on "Economic Crisis In The US May Be An Opportunity For The VoIP Industry" by Nadeem Unuth - http://budurl.com/3jrh