Jaxtr - Link your phone to your online network and recieve calls for free
Posted on August 7, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Jaxtr is a voice service that lets you link your phone to the web so that you can be contacted by anyone worldwide without having to share your phone. Since Jaxtr uses a normal URL address to link to your phone, you can post this address on your blog, your profile on MySpace or FaceBook, on auction sites like eBay or Craigslist, or just about anywhere!
You can also control who can call you and who goes directly to voicemail and who gets to ring through to your phone. Jaxtr works with your cell phone or land line phone, so no additional equipment is required. Once you create an account, log into the system and add your phone so that you can begin receiving calls. You’ll receive a phone call from the Jaxtr service and you must put in the code displayed in your browser. Wait a minute or two and the web site will update with confirmation that you phone has been activated.
On the home screen, you’ll see your phone link that you can use in emails, web sites, etc. Using Jaxtr, you can call other Jaxtr users for free or receive calls from anyone that use up Jaxtr credits. Every month you get 100 Jaxtr credits for free. You can get more Jaxtr credits by recruiting others to the service or by simply buying them.
Using Jaxtr, you can receive calls from over 51 countries at rates that are comparable to calling someone locally. Also, they have a very nice widget that you can use on your blog or other social networking site. It also integrates well with GMail, Hotmail, AOL, etc for inviting friends to the service.
The downside is that if you run out of Jaxtr points, you won’t receive any more calls on your phone, they all simply go to voicemail. Hopefully, they change this in the future and allow calls to come through and simply charge for the extra services. Also, they currently do not have a way to buy Jaxtr credits directly from the web site, you have to invite others to get more credits! However, they are working on setting up some kind of system to allow direct purchase.
Overall, an interesting service that might be useful for some people who want to use the service on a small scale.
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ADD NIGERIA TO THE LIST TO MAKE 52. WE WANT TO BENEFIT FROM THIS GLOBAL CAKE!
Please, I thought I could call my friends in Nigeria through Jaxtr and I told them they could sign in to jaxtr to call me for free but it didn’t work. Please, i think Nigeria should be added so that my ‘jaxtr friends’ in Nigeria can call me for free.
Hi friends, I make call from Saudi to India for a number 2 times, now i am unable to add these number in any other username, please inform me if there is any possible way. Many thanks
Considering the fact that the person you call have to have signed up and worked hard to get credits before you can talk to him/her, jaxtr is quite a hassle.
What you should do is to check out Rebtel (http://www.rebtel.com) instead. The person you call doesn’t have to do anything other than pick up the phone. Calling e.g. US cost 1.8 cents a minute (+ the cost of the local call), UK cost 1.9 cents a minute (+ the cost of the local call) or India cost 5.6 cents a minute (+ the cost of the local call). That’s cheap!
There’s a hang up-call back scenario to make calls without the international charge.
…and by the way, I think the quality is great