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Leading Alternative Voice Provider Launches PC-Less Service
When I say alternative I don’t mean “replacement” I mean “different” because JAJAH is not a traditional voice provider…but thats a good thing, right? Yesterday, JAJAH launched JAJAH Direct, a new service that allows you to make ultra-low rate calls without a PC (as is necessary with their standard service), by calling into a local access number then dialing the international number you want. Here is how it works:
Dial a local access number (see http://www.localaccessnumber.com)
Enter the international number you want to call
JAJAH connects you. After your first call you will receive a unique local number for each of your contacts that you can store in your phone or address book for future calling.
Simple. Easy. Affordable. The way it should be.
While JAJAH Direct is not revolutionary (after all it is similar to a calling card service), it is great to see a “new” phone company offering customers more choices in the way that they can access and utilize voice. For more information about JAJAH Direct, visit, www.JAJAHDirect.com.
Who Will Be The First to Offer a Mobile VoIP Application for Andriod
Today, Google unveiled the Andriod SDK for the Open Handset Alliance. If you have not yet checked it out, watch the video at the end of this post. It is definitely worth your 6 minutes and 24 seconds.
I am not sure if Andriod will revolutionize the mobile phone, but I do think that the release of Andriod spells the ending of an era of closed offerings from cellular carriers and presents a tremendous opportunity for mobile entrepreneurs, especially those in the VoIP space. Given the trouble that many mobile VoIP providers face with cellular providers blocking their applications and the ability to make calls over the phone’s data connection, the presence of an open platform for mobile application development and the expected demand from the general public, mobile VoIP providers now have an ally.
Andriod is an ally in that if cellular providers are going to support the platform (which they eventually will have to do), they lose much of the control as to what applications consumers can use. The harder it is for the cellular provider to control what is installed on the handset, the harder it becomes to block certain applications and services. Expect to see a plethora of mobile VoIP applications pop up for the Andriod SDK. Question now is, “Who will be first?”
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Challenger Mobile, a Swedish company that offers FREE mobile VoIP calls has signed a partnership with an “to-be-named” UK cellular provider to offer FREE mobile VoIP calls. Challenger Mobile, who is a leading provider of end-to-end white-label Mobile VoIP platforms to wireless operators and the content providers and services companies that serve them, has signed a handful of cellular providers over the last few months.
Challenger Mobile’s platform allows cellular providers to offer their customer SIP based VoIP calls via a 3G or Wi-Fi network. As I have stated before, the mobile VoIP marketplace is hot and is the VoIP service for 2008. While I don’t know of many other white label mobile VoIP providers, given the growing interest in mobile VoIP services, I suspect to see more companies like Challenger Mobile pop-up over the next six to twelve months.
One of the brightest areas of the VoIP industry is mobile VoIP services. After disrupting the legacy land line telephony industry, IP communications entrepreneurs are now prepping for a huge push into the mobile industry mainstream in 2008; and consumers are more then ready for them. According to a Far Point Group survey, over 25% of the respondents stated that mobile VoIP was the mobile application that they are most likely to add in 2008.
Although the survey did not state whether mobile VoIP meant services such as Truphone or technology such as Fixed Mobile Convergence, it is interesting that mobile VoIP is drawing this much interest. I guess wherever their is money to be saved, there will be companies and customers.
When I say alternative I don’t mean “replacement” I mean “different” because JAJAH is not a traditional voice provider…but thats a good thing, right? Yesterday, JAJAH launched JAJAH Direct, a new service that allows you to make ultra-low rate calls without a PC (as is necessary with their standard service), by calling into a local access number then dialing the international number you want. Here is how it works:
Today, Google unveiled the 
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