improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article may require cleanup to meet wikipedia s quality standards . no cleanup reason has been specified . please help improve this article if you can . april 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message jajah web developer s jajah inc. last release 1.1 build 1718 march 14 2007 development status discontinued operating system cross platform type voip website www.jajah.com jajah was a voip voice over ip provider founded by austrians roman scharf and daniel mattes in 2005 . the jajah headquarters are located in mountain view ca usa and luxembourg . jajah maintained a development centre in israel . on 23 december 2009 it was announced that jajah had been bought by telef nica through its subsidiary telef nica europe . 1 in december 2013 telef nica announced that jajah would shut down at the end of january 2014 . 2 jajah s primary service jajah web took an approach called web activated telephony using voip to connect traditional phones landline or mobile . calls were made without download or user installed software and in most cases at rates lower than those of traditional phone companies or even free of charge . 3 the company s competitors included ribbit 4 and intelepeer . 5 contents 1 history 2 jajah web 3 jajah direct 4 jajah free global calling 4.1 facebook calling 5 technology 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit jajah was founded in 2005 by roman scharf and daniel mattes . the first beta version of the jajah webphone a proprietary peer to peer internet telephony voip softphone was released in july 2005 . february 8 2006 jajah web version 1.0 build 1708 released . september 12 2006 jajah web version 1.1 build 1714 including conference calls september 27 2007 jajah launches a solution named jajah buttons which enables small businesses or individuals to embed buttons on their web sites to allow others to contact them by phone using the company s internet telephony platform . jajah buttons caused a notable controversy when ebay removed and banned such buttons from auction listings in ebay s site presumably to protect revenues from its own voip solution provided by skype . 6 7 november 19 2007 jajah launches the jajah direct service which enables users to make phone calls without having to be next to a computer . 8 9 jajah direct is a phone service that allows you to make long distance or international calls by calling a local number it works with every phone . 8 9 there are no free calls using this service . 9 april 28 2008 jajah provides its proprietary telephony infrastructure payment processing and customer care to yahoo messenger users using the platform for receiving calls from the pstn network or for making calls to land lines and mobile phones . citation needed december 23 2009 . telef nica buys jajah for a reported 207 million . 10 april 14 2011 . jajah announced a partnership with globe telecom to allow filipinos living outside philippines to call home at inexpensive rate . 11 november 30 2012 . effective january 30 2013 yahoo messenger will no longer offer yahoo voice phone in and phone out capabilities the co branded landline and mobile phone service from jajah . 12 january 31 2014 . jajah will no longer offer any jajah . com or jajah direct services to its users in the united states or elsewhere . 2 jajah web edit jajah web connected existing traditional landline or mobile phones with calls that are set up via jajah s web site . jajah claimed that their service worked with any standard web browser . 13 jajah direct edit jajah direct assigned local numbers to international contacts . jajah free global calling edit jajah launched a service offering free calls globally on june 27 2006 . 14 the service is limited to specified geographic areas and jajah has also adopted a fair use policy which limits the amount of free jajah calls . calls between registered jajah users were free of charge for landline and mobile calls within the usa canada china singapore hong kong thailand and apply also for landline calls to and within most european countries as well as argentina australia israel japan malaysia mexico city new zealand venezuela and zambia . a limitation is that scheduled calls and conference calls can not be free . in addition jajah s faq pages said that jajah asks its customers to pay from time to time every six weeks . 15 if the user chose not to pay jajah would start charging as it would for a normal call . it should also be noted that the lowest amount that could be credited to a user account every six weeks to retain the free minutes was 10 . facebook calling edit in april 2011 jajah introduced a voip application for android phones that can be used with facebook contacts . 16 technology edit the process of establishing calls between two regular landline or mobile phones via voip this section needs expansion . you can help by adding to it . february 2009 see also edit voice over ip references edit macinnes judy ; robert hetz ; david holmes december 23 2009 . telefonica buys internet phone provider jajah . reuters . retrieved 23 december 2009 . a b telefonica to shut down voip provider jajah on january 31 2014 jajah rates dead link matt marshall venturebeat . intelepeer raises 18m for telephony web platform . november 11 2008 . retrieved july 10 2009 . om malik new york times . why intelepeer snagged 18 million in funding . november 11 2008 . retrieved july 13 2009 . perez juan carlos october 6 2007 . voip vendor jajah protests ebay s ban . pc world . retrieved 2008 09 18 . rosmarin rachel october 4 2007 . don t call me we ll call you . forbes . retrieved 2008 09 18 . dead link a b kristen nicole mashable . jajah direct . no internet connection necessary . . november 18 2007 . retrieved january 23 2012 . a b c tmcnet . jajah direct launches . november 18 2007 . retrieved january 23 2012 . nick clayton the wall street journal . goodbye to the credit card reader . july 27 2011 . retrieved aug 9 2011 . carolyn j dawson tmc net . globe telecom and jajah form partnership . apr 15 2011 . retrieved aug 9 2011 . yahoo messenger dead link jajah general faq . jajah . retrieved 16 january 2010 . dead link jajah introduces free global landline and mobile calls dead link jajah fair use policy dead link jason kincaid techcrunch . jajah brings its facebook calling to android iphone coming soon . april 12 2011 . retrieved april 12 2011 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jajah & oldid 735695185 categories voip companies of the united statessymbian softwareinternet 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