Susan, a student in US, was worried; she had just moved into a new apartment and being a student, she had to budget all her expenses. Of late, her phone bills were increasing. She used to call her parents in India daily.
Students like Susan can now breathe a sense of relief. Jajah, a California based company dealing with voice over internet protocol (VoIP), has ensured that people like Susan can now call home without worrying about phone costs. Calls made to and from India through Jajah will now cost only Rs. 3 per minute.
Jajah, unlike services such as Skype, allows users to make cheap calls using the Internet - without the need of accessories such as headphones, microphones or software downloads. All they need is an Internet connection and a registration with the website. Users can call a landline or mobile by typing the number they want to call from and the number they want to call to.
Roman Scharf, founder of Jajaj, said:
By October, we will launch our secondary business model that will allow US and UK users to make free long-distance calls and by 2007-end India will get our free telephony service too.
He, however, declined to provide any more information.
The company, funded by venture capitalists Sequoia Capital who also invested in YouTube and Apple, also plans to add Jajah as a communication tool at well-known social networking web sites such as Facebook, SecondLife and MySpace.
Via: Business-Standard
