T-Mobile Parent Puts Money Down on VoIP
Source: www.voip-news.com
Today, the German telephone company, Deutsche Telekom, is announcing that they are investing in JAJAH. Although they have not yet disclosed the specific amount they ponied up, they did participate in the recent $20 million funding round along with Intel.
JAJAH operates a little differently than their competitors like Vonage and Skype. With their service, while they use the Internet to allow for cheap and/or free calls, it connects the call using a traditional phone line or cell phone, so subscribers still have to hang onto their existing service.
As Forbes reported today, Deutsche Telekom definitely has a few “hurdles ahead. Jajah has signed up more than 2 million users but is still tiny compared to Skype, which has almost 200 million registered users. And the industry is becoming increasingly crowded: Jajah will have to fight for subscribers with similar upstarts like Rebtel, Hullo and MobiVox, and other ways to make cheap calls, like “all you can eat” long-distance plans and pre-paid phone cards.”
Should shape up to be an interesting battle.
