{"id":27,"date":"2007-05-09T13:23:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/jajah-picks-up-20mm-in-series-c-funding\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T20:23:41","slug":"jajah-picks-up-20mm-in-series-c-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/09\/jajah-picks-up-20mm-in-series-c-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Jajah picks up 20mm in Series C Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at <a title=\"TechCrunch\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\">TechCrunch<\/a> announced today that <a title=\"Jajah\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jajah.com\">Jajah<\/a> has received 20 million in Series C funding. Jajah is tying to become a first tier VoIP provider &#8211; and their primary advantage is that they recognize and accept that the PSTN (publicly switched telephony network &#8211; you know, the one that gets you to any standard phone number) is the primary way customer&#8217;s use voice communicaitons today.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"TechCrunch Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/05\/09\/jajah-lands-20-million-series-c-funding-from-intel\/\">Original Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally &#8211; and perhaps most importantly in light of the Verizon vs. Vonage patent suit, Jajah gets access to Intel&#8217;s VoIP patents. One assumes &#8211; since Jajah&#8217;s primary technical component is PSTN\/VoIP interconnect &#8211; Jajah sees this as a practical MAD (mutually assured destruction) defense if targeted by Verizon or others.<\/p>\n<p>Jajah is my favorite VoIP service for the average consumer&#8230; all I need is an account and a regular phone. Since the VoIP portion is &#8220;inside&#8221; Jajah they have far better quality than <a title=\"Skype\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a>, <a title=\"Gizmo Project\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmoproject.com\">Gizmo<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Jajah is still a simple cost reduction play (now I can make phone calls for less). While their add on features are nice&#8230; they are far from innovative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at TechCrunch announced today that Jajah has received 20 million in Series C funding. Jajah is tying to become a first tier VoIP provider &#8211; and their primary advantage is that they recognize and accept that the PSTN (publicly switched telephony network &#8211; you know, the one that gets you to any standard&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/09\/jajah-picks-up-20mm-in-series-c-funding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jajah picks up 20mm in Series C Funding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}