Team Jajah is nothing short of amazing these days. Barely on the heels of their eHarmony announcement comes the announcement that they've opened service to India. For 3Rs, callers can now call to and from the US. Perhaps more interesting even than the new service were Jajah founder Roman Scharf's comments:
“By October, we will launch our secondary business model that will allow US, UK users to make free long-distance calls and by 2007-end India will get our free telephony service too,” Roman Scharf told Business Standard.
Free POTS calls? Perhaps Ooma is too late to the party already.
by alec on December 10, 2006
In a fascinating development, the Indian VoIP market (which was deregulated in 2002) now seems to be closing ranks again. Call center operators, among others, will have to publish the names of the companies they do business with, and a wide ranging list of offshore operators like Skype and Vonage are banned.Â
Om Malik writes: “For a country which views itself as part of Planet Technology, its government is failing to take into account the changing telecom and technology environment.” Tom Evslin goes further in his piece titled India Shoots Self in Foot, noting that you can’t do business with offshore factories that you can’t call. The India Times has more detail also.
Short sighted, indeed.
