Chat Away With JaJah

There is a new VOIP service in town and it is free, for a little while at least. JaJah is a VoIP service that allows you to make free calls from your landline to another landline.The way it works is not much explained, but you basically go online and register your number, then get your contact to register their number. Once you’re both registered, you click the Call This Landline Number button within the JaJah application. After a short pause, your phone will ring and an automated voice will ask you to wait while you’re connected to the other person. Once they answer their phone, you can talk for free.

I couldn’t really test it out because I can talk for free anyway with my cell phone, and I don’t have any friends overseas. I didn’t however, get a friend to register just to try out the quality. It was not bad at all. Very clear with no hickups at all.

Even better, if you want to call a landline number in a different country, you can do it free or very inexpensively. Registered users within USA, Canada, China, Singapore, Hong Kong Taiwan or Taiwan can talk for free to and from any combination of landline and mobile phones.

A feature I really like, and that I find is being incorporated into many services these days, is the ability to call for free without even using a computer to connect two landlines. All you will have to do is text JaJah the number you want to call and the same process as with landlines will follow - They call you, you answer, and wait to be connected!

So what does this service do that the giant (Skype) can’t do? Not much actually, but the differences may be big to you. JaJah allows you to use your own phone instead of an awkward Skype USB phone or headset and you do not have to install any software. In addition, JaJah is free in most cases, and you cannot beat that. So check it out. They offer a demo on their site before you register.