Jajah introduces cheap Conference Calling

By Vivek Puri | September 14th, 2006 at 02:36 am ET         

Jajah has launched a new conference calling product that allows users to schedule and initiate cheap conference calls in an easy-to-use online set up. Jajah is aiming to signup businesses, small enterprises, families or circles of friends who need to organize their social life.

Users can set up a conference call on the fly by adding phone numbers on the Jajah site. Once all the numbers are in there, Jajah calculates per minute price of the call. Jajah has zone based rate structure with USA, and Canada being in Zone1. For regular calls Jajah-Jajah user calling is free but that does not apply to conferencing, which means there will a charge of .025 cents/minute/user for people located in Zone1/2. Jajah users also have options to schedule conferences, set reminders, create contacts and groups.

I personally arranged a conference call using Jajah and would rate the quality of service as excellent. To start, Jajah first calls the moderator of the conference and after confirmation, calls rest of the attendees. At most 10 people can attend the conference. One big advantage of Jajah is that none of the users attending the conference are required to have long-distance plans, since Jajah will be calling the users. However one issue with Jajah conferencing is that people cannot join a conference call that has already been initiated.

Earlier this week, Yahoo had announced near future rollout of Yahoo Messenger Conferencing plugin. It will be interesting to see what options, pricing, and quality Yahoo will offer.

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