"Jaxtr allows anyone to sign up for a free membership and start sending SMS messages internationally at absolutely no cost," said jaxtr co-founder and COO Touraj Parang. "You can SMS your friends and family abroad whether or not they are currently members of jaxtr. The moment you sign up for a free account at jaxtr.com the world is literally at your fingertips."
The latest annual report from Research and Markets predicts that 2008 will see over two trillion SMS text messages sent worldwide. While domestic SMS is generally affordable, sending messages to friends and family abroad is generally still quite expensive. In the United States, it costs roughly $.20-$.25 to send SMS messages internationally via the major mobile providers.
Launched in March 2007, jaxtr is already the largest social communications company on the Web. Over 10 million people in 220 countries use jaxtr to receive calls from people visiting their social networking pages, to make calls to their friends and family worldwide and to get to know fellow jaxtr members on caf jaxtr (www.cafejaxtr.com), the world's first global, mobile talk network.
About jaxtr
Jaxtr is a social communications company based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was launched publicly in March 2007, and the jaxtr service is currently used by over ten million users in 220 countries. Jaxtr links your phone to the Web, so you can hear from callers worldwide while keeping your existing phone number private and so you can call people anywhere in the world directly from your mobile without paying expensive international toll charges. Jaxtr works with any phone, including ordinary landline phones. No download is required - even if calls are initiated from a mobile phone.
Jaxtr Launches Free International SMS