It's been a good few weeks to be a VoIP user, and a bad one to be Skype.
To a great extent, up until now Skype has had a lock on the consumer P2P VoIP market, and even though its recent move into business VoIP hasn't been universally well-received, things looked rosy for the company in that market as well.
But a trio of competitors makes the future less rosy for Skype. Yahoo, the well-financed startup Jajah, and the big Web site Lycos have all released no-cost or low-cost VoIP P2P solutions within the last few weeks, attempting to muscle in on Skype.
Watch Out for Jajah
Possibly the most intriguing of the group is the European-based Jajah. The service requires no client to download, and doesn't actually use a user's PC to make the call. Instead, someone logs onto the site, types in his number and the number he is calling, and the site calls him and connects him to who he wants to call. For the most part, the call goes over the Internet, although the last-mile connection uses the PSTN or mobile service. The calls are low-cost, but not free, and are comparable to Skype PC-to-landline rates. But Jajah does not offer free PC-to-PC calls, like Skype does.
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