Showing posts with label Jaxtr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jaxtr. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Voice From Inside Facebook


Pat Phelan points out that there are perhaps nine voice applications users can launch from inside Facebook, including GrandCentral, RebMe by Rebtel, Phonebook by Jangl, MyPhone by Jaxtr, SkypeMe, One Minute Friend, Yakpack, Sitofono and the new conferencing application for Facebook released by iotum.

Monday, July 23, 2007

One Reason why Skype is Not Growing So Fast


Jaxtr allows free international calls using mobile phones. Jaxtr says its membership has doubled to 500,000 users in the past month, and is signing up new users on the Web at a rate of more than 12,000 a day.

And then there are Jajah, Jangl, Rebtel and GrandCentral as well.

"No download is required, and our direct numbers can be dialed from any type of mobile phone or even ordinary landline phones," Jaxtr CEO Executive Konstantin Guericke said, contrasting its Web-based approach to certain complexities of other services.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Jajah gets DT


In the VoIP world, this has to count as a pretty big deal Deutsche Telekom is backing Web-enabled VoIP service Jajah, says Reuters reporter Eric Auchard. In a real sense, DT is backing a dial-around service that when used cuts DT's long distance revenue, especially higher-margin international calling.

Deutsche Telekom is embedding Jajah into its T-Online Web properties and that it expects to offer calling services to consumers and businesses in the future.

And T-Online Ventures, Telekom's venture capital unit, disclosed it is part of a third round of funding for Jajah. Intel Corp. recently invested in a $20 million investment round and has granted Jajah use of some of Intel's key VoIP patents.

Jajah is one of a new class of rivals that let callers simply call phone-to-phone, once they have signed up on the Web. Jangl, Jaxtr and Rebtel also use the Web-enabled approach or dial-around approaches.

What all these firms offer is a way to use VoIP to make cheaper calls on standard POTS phones. And any way one looks at the matter, that is going to be most of the market, most of the time.

Jajah has signed up more than twi million users and expects well over five million users by year-end. Germany is one of Jajah's five biggest markets after the United States and Britain. Other top markets are China and India, he said.

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