Jajah has launched Jajah Direct in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The new service will allow its users to make low-cost VoIP calls without a PC or special phone or headset. From TMCnet:
This solution from JAJAH has successfully triggered what is considered a revolution in global calling. In fact, 10 million people in America, England and other parts of Europe are already using it to save on their phone calls. JAJAH offers the ability to combine the savings of an Internet call with the convenience of being able to use a normal phone. Traditionally, VoIP calls were only available with an Internet connection. Now, all consumers in Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic can make low cost, high quality VoIP calls with the JAJAH Direct solution.
T-Mobile is close to launching their T-Mobile@Home VoIP service, which is expected to compete with AT&T, Verizon, and Vonage. The new service will start at $10/month for unlimited nationwide calling. From the NY Times:
T-Mobile@Home transmits calls from the phone handset through a $50 T-Mobile router to the Internet, where voice-over-Internet-protocol technology is used to complete the call. Customers are allowed to keep their existing home phone number. At the same time, said Chief Executive Robert Dotson, they can get the same services they get from mobile phones, such as personalized ring tones.
TwitterFone, a voice-to-text-message service for Twitter launched just earlier today. From their press release: “Twitterfone voice-enables Twitter, a text message rebroadcast service and the hottest social networking service at the moment. With Twitterfone, people can dictate text messages via their mobile to be sent out to everyone on their Twitter social network.”
Yep, that’s right… 10 million now for JAJAH. And in other news… JAJAH has also just announced that they have opened their platform to third parties with their new JAJAH Managed Services initiative. Yahoo! is the initiative’s first customer. More from Alec Saunders…
