Jajah to Bring VoIP to Yahoo Messenger

Jajah have announced today that they have been selected to provide the VoIP engine that will be used by Yahoo to provide VoIP services through the Yahoo! Messenger client. This is the first major customer to close with Jajah, using their Jajah Managed Services, targetted at business customers. Jajah already touch 10 million customers of their own via a portfolio of web-based and mobile products, based on callback/callout technology and Jajah's own international VoIP backbone. With the Yahoo deal, Messenger clients will have access to call-in and call-out technology for PC-to-PSTN and PSTN-to-PC, bringing a further 97 million customers to Jajah.

Trevor Healy, Jajah CEO said that the seamless integration of web and voice interaction is clearly important to strategic partner, Yahoo!. Through this relationship, Jajah have the opportunity to extend their innovative global calling services with an industry leader that can leverage the power of their platform and network.

With its managed services business, Jajah aims to acquire more telco and cable company customers over coming months, and this marks a strategy change for the company.