VoIP News

We find it surprising when Canadian analysts tell us that “Canada is generally 2 to 3 years behind the US”. For a country with a population equal to state of California and the second largest land mass in the world they are a pretty innovative bunch!

From acrylic to your everyday zipper, Canada brought us more amazing innovations in between. Basketball, Hockey and Lacrosse are all Canadian. As is the insulin process, heart pacemaker and instant mashed potatoes.

Celine Dion from Qubec, Nelly Furtado from Victoria, Jim Carrey, Wayne Gretzky, and the list goes on.

However, the most important contributions from the True White North in telecommunications come from Alexander Graham Bell for the invention of the telephone (well, Gramophone).

Even the walkie-talkie and wireless radio blossomed out of Canada. More recently Canada paved the smart phone culture thanks to RIM’s Blackberry and great presence applications like Iotum from our friend Alec Saunders. PHP and Java Programming languages are accredited to innovators from Canadian Universities.

Two to three years behind? Bologna! Without further ado, we made the decision to support the Canadian currency on Jajah.com

“Canadians have been finding JAJAH on their own and have been asking us for this upgrade. We hope this brings even more Canadian users to our system to enjoy low cost calls” said Roman Scharf, JAJAH co-founder.

“Canada is a prime market for JAJAH, especially in large cities like Toronto and Vancouver, where overseas calling is quite regular,” said Jon Arnold, Principal of J Arnold & Associates, an independent VoIP consultancy in Toronto. “The savings will be very attractive to mobile users, and with support now for payment in Canadian currency, I expect to see a lot of interest in JAJAH here.”

Canadians pay 3 times more for wireless services than their counter-parts in the US. Current long distance rates are staggering for Canadians. Consumers pay as much as 10 cents per minute to call across Canada and to the US with mobile bundles and 30 cents per minute for additional minutes.

So — we want to reward you Canada with FREE calling! You enriched our lives with so many things from the anti-gravity suit to the washing machine. With JAJAH, calls to other registered users across Canada or to the U.S. on a landline or mobile phone is FREE for up to 30 minutes each day for calls initiated from Jajah.com.

Use Jajah on the go with Jajah Mobile, calls from mobile.jajah.com or one of our plugins are up to 86 percent cheaper – to top calling destinations including U.S., China, Hong Kong, India and the UK. Landline and mobile calling rates across Canada, U.S. and China are 4 cents, 5 cents to Hong Kong and 9 cents to India. See our rates page for other destinations (select “CAD” in the upper right corner).

Go on Canada, celebrate your successes and save money on your nationwide and long distance calling – it’s on us!