Way back in December last year, I reported Jingle’s milestone in achieving 100 million mark in 411 calls. Skype is now collaborating with Jingle, which is an interesting proposition for both the companies.
Designed and developed by Google and Jabber Software Foundation in October 2005, Jingle Networks today dominates nearly three percent of the USA 411 market. It is providing toll-free 411 services for the customers enabling them to access any residential, business or government phone number without any cost.
With this latest agreement with Skype, Jingle will now provide the same service for Skype 3.5 users in USA. The Skype users can also add ‘Free411USA’ to their Skype friends list.
We should not forget the fact that Skype users are regular online users. They can make online search to find out desired phone number from various sources rather than depending upon Jingle. Therefore, Skype-Jingle collaboration may have little impact on the users.
