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Jajah Inc.

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legal form Inc.
founding 2005
Seat Mountain View , Silicon Valley
management
sales 200million EUR (2007)
Branch Software, technology, services, telecommunications, VoIP
Website www.jajah.com

Jajah [ dʒɒ.dʒɑː ] was one of the Austrians , was established in Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes 2005 IP telephony - provider of Web-based telephony . The service ended on January 31, 2014.

Business model

After the company was founded, a proprietary VoIP softphone solution based on the Skype model was implemented in mid-2005 .

In autumn 2005, the business model was changed to a so - called web - based , web- activated or browser-based VoIP solution, the focus of which is on the routing and termination of calls via existing landline and cellular connections on a callback basis. Only the entry of phone numbers and user account / telephone number management takes place online using a web browser via an Internet connection - with regard to call switching , only the long-distance switching of telephone calls is implemented using VoIP technology. This service has been available to Jajah customers since February 2006.

Since June 2006, calls were between Jajah- participants free of charge, since September 2006, telephone conferences supported and Jajah- phone - clients on Java MIDlet - and SymbianOS provided basis for mobile Jajah use.

Jajah enabled inexpensive VoIP telephone calls at locations with an existing telephone connection, provided there was Internet access for initiating calls, and could also be used as a call-by-call replacement for mobile phones and on third-party telephone connections.

Jajah Web

Jajah Web switched calls from traditional landline or cellular networks through Jajah's website. The caller ( A subscriber ) typed his own telephone number and the desired destination number for the B subscriber into a web form, whereupon the Jajah service set up the connection to the A subscriber. As soon as he picks up the phone, the destination number was dialed by Jajah and the connection between the two participants was established.

Minimalistic text browsers such as Lynx or Mobile HTML browsers and narrow-band Internet access are sufficient for use . In contrast to the advertising-financed provider Peterzahl , the Internet connection could be disconnected after entering the phone number, which was advantageous for users with Internet time tariffs or with technologies that do not allow simultaneous Internet and telephone connections ( analogue connection , GSM ). The Jajah call setup could also be postponed to a later point in time, for example if the telephone used by the A-subscriber is not at the location of the Internet access, or in the case of fixed calls / conference calls or so that there was enough time to release the telephone line with an analog modem access .

criticism

In the course of an automatic redial procedure introduced in 2007 , calls that were not answered by the called party were billed to the caller as a chargeable connection if the call attempt was not aborted after about five ringing tones . Compare the SMS info services for missed calls and voice mailboxes that cannot be deactivated .

Corporate development

After it was founded in 2005, Jajah succeeded in presenting itself as an innovative company with the new concept of web-based telephony , whose VoIP solution could be used anywhere where there was Internet access with a web browser and a conventional telephone connection. Well-known investors and people from the Internet business were quickly won over:

The company was headquartered in Mountain View in Silicon Valley , with branches in Luxembourg and Raʿanana in Israel . In May 2007, Jajah said it had around three million customers and an average monthly customer turnover of € 6 (corresponding to annual sales of over € 200 million). In December 2009 it was announced that Jajah had been taken over by Telefónica for 145 million euros .

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The company name (company) was, according to the survey company founders, the Schwirrholz borrowed (Bullroarer), a musical instrument of the Aborigines , we can communicate with the over long distances.

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  1. ↑ VoIP service Jajah is discontinued. In: The Standard . December 2, 2013, accessed June 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Intel Capital Kicks Off Annual CEO Summit; Announces Six New Global Investments. Intel, May 9, 2007, archived from the original on July 14, 2007 ; Retrieved June 11, 2018 (information on Intel's involvement in Jajah).
  3. ↑ Telekom joins JAJAH. Deutsche Telekom, May 29, 2007, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved on June 11, 2018 (notification from Deutsche Telekom on its investment in Jajah).
  4. ↑ Telefonica buys Internet telephony company Jajah. In: Computerwoche . December 28, 2009. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .

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