Jajah, the VOIP telephony provider, has received backing from Deutsche Telekom via its financial investment unit T-Online Venture Fund. The investment follows hot on the heels of similar backing from Intel earlier this month.
Deutsche has been facing a downturn in demand for its fixed-line services for some time, and this is seen as a move to revive profits and shift focus into the promising VOIP market. Last week, the mobile telephony arm of DT launched “The Wing”, a new smartphone allowing owners to make calls via WiFi in supported hotspots across the United States.
With several of the leading VOIP Providers all vying for customers in an ultra-competitive market, it remains to be seen whether the relative late-comers can cut it in a sector which has seen incredible amounts of investment over the past couple of years. The purchase of Skype by eBay in 2005 was arguably the starting point of what is now fast-becoming a burgeoning and saturated marketplace.
Jajah offers a range of VOIP services to users, and is targeting a number of corporate accounts with business telephony services and call center functions. Their overall aim, though, seems to be the end user and their desire for “free calls from anywhere”. Jajah promise their customers a unique and varied range of services and VOIP solutions. Watch this space to see if they achieve their aims.
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