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I have tried every type of VoIP service there is from the Lingo’s and Vonage’s of the world, to the Skypes, to the Jajahs. Techcrunch ran a story today about the new crop of VoIP services that includes Jajah. Jajah allows users to make phone calls over IP networks, but allows you to maintain your own phone line. Techcrunch believes that there is too much work for people to go through the steps to use these types of services instead of traditional VoIP services, as if traditional VoIP services aren’t hard to use. I agree that it does take some time to get these services working on a daily basis, but the benefits are huge over traditional VoIP, and what you are asking the user to do, is not too much of a pain that they would rather pay money for calls.

This new breed of startups can quickly wipe out the traditional players, because there is no hardware to install, and the connection isn’t horrible like traditional VoIP. We have used Jajah for a couple months now and would never make an international call using anything else. The ease of use and great pricing has lead me to use it as my #1 choice for these types of calls. Techcrunch did introduce me to hullo, which I’m looking forward to testing out, it appears to be a downloadable version of Jajah, and may have some newer applications.