More is more: Jajah free landline and mobile worldwide calls
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Until now, Jajah has always found a good answer to Skype projects. And Frederik Herman, Jajah’s online marketing manager, sparked our attention by warning us about a major announcement ― without telling it. So we were musing until this morning.
Until this announcement: “Jajah introduces free global landline and mobile calls”
“The Jajah Free Global Calling Plan applies to land line and mobile calls to and within: the United States; Canada; China; Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan […] Australia; UK; Germany; France, Italy and most other European nations.”
Call participants must be registered Jajah users. But registration is free, and no pre-payment is required, said the statement. And “in countries where free phone calls are not available, or if someone is calling a non-Jajah member, calls are simply subject to Jajah’s rates, usually less than 3 cents a minute.”
With this move, some quick thoughts:
- SkypeOut will remain free in North America after the testing period, which was said to be reconsidered at the end of 2006. Skype is beaten at its own game.
- Ad-supported business models are elbowed, although time will tell.
- There’s also little doubt that making money on Internet telephony will be something almost impossible. Leo Hindery, at the Convergence 2.0, agreed with that.
But remains these questions: Is the battle for free calls is almost over? Are we going to see a bunch of voice-related services bloom now?
Rant on us a bit. Tell us what do you think?
UPDATE, June 27, 2006 ― SiliconBeat hints that “Jajah hopes to make money by charging for other services, such as the low-rate calls it provides to countries not on the free list, scheduled calling and small-business services.” That’s the ritual In/Out level. The first group of countries, with media more converged than the second one, will slightly get more converged.
Jun 27, 2006 | By Nuno
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Why is that only Skype users in North America get to benefit from the free Skype Out calls which are under testing? I can understand that they are trying to push and promote the software in this area but why can’t the people in Europe or the rest of the World get a similar offer?
Sure, Mark. And that’s why it would be interesting to see how Skype would react to the Jajah’s new service.
This is just a cycle of price war, one decrease its price, the other one will decrease more; one give free offer, the other will give more…
At the end, where is the benefit coming from?
Sean, as a matter of facts, the VoIP will become a commodity. Like emails, a phone call will be free. And the boundary between landline and unfixed phones, no more. Benefits would come from related services. That’s the only way, and that’s why Microsoft, Google, eBay are looking into the click-to-call direction.
its not free anymore even if you have not reached your play fair policy are you guys facing the same issues