Jajah Adds Gizmo to Customer List

Doug Mohney — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:01:29 -0400

Gizmo5 has signed up with Jajah, making it the third VoIP player to turn over their VoIP-PSTN interconnect infrastructure to the company.

Jajah will handle all call termination for Gizmo5, as well as additional services including customer care and billing. Gizmo5, formerly known as the Gizmo Project, was founded by tech maverick Michael Robertson and uses open standards such as SIP and Jabber along with a dash of P2P to connect VoIP calls. Calls between clients are free, but in and outbound calls are billable. According to Gizmo, they have "millions of users" doing calling and IM; outsourcing to Jajah should save them money and give them a better deal on calling rates.

Gizmo5 joins Yahoo and MailVision in farming out their call handing to Jajah, boosting Jajah's standing as the place to go for managed VoIP services when it comes to soft phones. Yahoo turned over its VoIP operations to Jajah at the end of April while MailVision signed up last week.

For more
- Jajah announces GizmoPhone win

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AOL Opens Up, Yahoo Outsources PSTN interfaces

Doug Mohney — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:23:40 -0400

AOL has introduced Open Voice APIs to allow third-party developers and VoIP device manufactures to integrate the AIM Call Out service into softphones, SIP-enabled hardware and cell phones with Wi-Fi connectivity. Meanwhile, Yahoo was outsourcing its PSTN interworkings to Jajah.

AIM Call Out is a pay-as-you go outbound voice calling service built into AIM that lets users make calls to landline and cell phones, with call credits purchased for as little as $5. The service complements the freebie PC-to-PC AIM Talk voice service. AOL hopes to facilitate real-time communications and rack up a few dollars in voice minutes.

Yahoo Messenger voice calls that touch the PSTN - - either inbound or outbound – will now be handled by Jajah. Yahoo is closing down its in-house infrastructure and Jajah will now provide the services for Yahoo’s for-pay “Phone In” and “Phone Out” features starting in the third quarter of 2008. Jajah will be responsible for the network infrastructure, providing customer support, and processing the payments.

Jajah brags it has 10 million users and will gain access to a potential audience of 97 million Yahoo Messenger users. The company also announced it is opening up its voice platform and offering strategic managed service solutions.

For more:
- AOL talks about AOL Open Voice APIs
- CNET blog on Jajah taking over Yahoo’s PSTN infrastructure

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