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Has anyone tried this?

http://www.jaxtr.com

Seems to work fine here, but you get only five minutes' free calls to your mobile phone per month, unclear how you purchase more.

I have signed up. CURRENTLY they give you 50 jax. You can add jax. I think 1 jax = 1 US cent.

SMS are free, including international. That is why I signed up. You get 65 characters only. It worked to my USA T-Mo phone and to my German T-Mo.

Calling IN NETWORK is free for the caller, I think. Being called from your friends IN NETWORK however cost you jax. It's a FOR PAY social networking site as I see it.

You pay for out of network calls - I think it's 2 jax setup. Rate to a German Mobile is 19 jax. Not bad. Onesuite is 23 cents.

As far as I can tell, their customer service does not exist. I have emailed them about two issues and have heard 0 from them.

I invited my son, brother and sister who would otherwise have to pay for SMS to us when we are in Europe. This way it's free -- until they change the rates. Not sure if they signed up.

Would appreciate any other comments.

Stan

Welcome message from JAXTR (about 5 days AFTER I signed up):

Hello Stanley,

We're glad you joined. As a jaxtr member, you can now use your mobile phone or landline to:

* Meet new people online with whom you can actually talk in cafe jaxtr
* Forward in-bound calls to any phone and get a global voicemail box online
* Make free in-network calls and bypass expensive international phone charges
* Send free international SMS

Post your jaxtr link in your email or social networking pages to hear from others while keeping your phone number private. Your personalized jaxtr link is http://www.jaxtr.com/..................

And your first international call is on us! We credited your account with free jax, so go ahead and try it:

http://www.jaxtr.com/user/home.jsp

Your free jax will expire in 30 days, so place your free call now.

Thanks for using jaxtr!

-The jaxtr team