Yahoo, Lycos, and startup Jajah take aim at Skype

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Yahoo, Lycos, and startup Jajah take aim at Skype

03-31-2006, 11:03 AM,

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Yahoo, Lycos, and startup Jajah take aim at Skype

Quote: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 rivals makes the future less sanguine 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 Europe-based Jajah...

full article: http://www.cmpnetasia.com/oct3_nw_viewar...rtid=28522&Catid=5&subcat=45§ion=Features

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