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Someone just tried to call me, but it went to my jaxtr voicemail. Why?

There could be several reasons for this. Please check the following:

1. That you are sending your calls to a phone and not voicemail (see Call Controls section of “Home” page)

2. That if your PrivacyShield box is checked (see Call Controls section of “Home” page), then the person that is calling you is an Approved Caller (see the Filter column of the “Calls” page)

3. That you have enough talk time credits (called “jax”) remaining.
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@”Michael”– Jaxtr’s userbase is largest in the US, UK, and India. You may consider India a 3rd world country, but it is actually Nokia’s 2nd largest market in the world after China, so to us, it a very attractive place to have users.

@Joel–Most of our users not typical early adopters–in fact our CEO recently had someone approach him at a conference and tell him that he had been invited to jaxtr by his mother! Jaxtr is designed to be useful to people of all ages and demographics, not just early adopting techies in Silicon Valley.

@Basil–Please see the above excerpt of our FAQ which explains why calls go to voicemail. Also, please send me a text message to http://www.jaxtr.com/megzozo so I can help solve the issues you are experiencing.

How about letting us know how many domestic calls Jaxtr does daily? If you don’t answer that question, it’s clear the announcement is for Jaxtr to posture. Tell us how many people use you daily not as a mundane web-based international call back option. That’s the only number that matters.

I bet she doesn’t answer the question.

@arjen– Please send me a text message via http://www.jaxtr.com/megzozo so we can get you up and running asap. You don’t need to be a member to call me or send me a text message. In fact, many users call through jaxtr without ever becoming a member, so our number of users is actually much higher than five million. Five million is just the number of people who register for our service because they want to receive calls via jaxtr.

This is rate-arbitrage call back. Anyone in telco knows this has been done for years. The only spin these guys use is the web to initiate the call.

At the end of the day, they know they’re nothing more than a telco reseller. Five million users? Geez, you’ll need that volume on an hourly basis if you’re going to succeed as a telco.

With US domestic rates low and approaching zero on marginal cost basis, the appeak of these services will continue to be Filipina maids calling home from the Gulf Sates, and al Qaeda terrorists trying to avoid detection.

Strip away all they hype and see these guys for what they are: a phone company. And a phone company that buys access from other major carriers, so they’re really a reseller. Nothing bad about that, but it will be an interesting race to see which of these guys joins Techcrunch’s dead pool first.

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This is why Skype has had so much success for computer based calls and Globe Dialer has success for mobile calls – simplicity. It’s only time before these companies come out with a better solution than jaxtr.

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Jangl would not let me verify my phone number over here in Sweden. I emailed a bunch with a developer there about the problem and perhaps it is fixed now. I’ll try again… someday.

Jaxtr I signed up for and tried to use, but my friends couldn’t seem to get through. Again, maybe because I’ve in Europe.

Jajah usually works like a charm, although they have absolutely ZERO customer service. You have to watch your bill for errors and/or extra charges. Also I am not happy with their ethical standards, which they show when you use the “Schedule a Call” feature. When you use that, a checkbox appears asking if you want to receive a reminder of the call via SMS. The reminder costs $0.66. They have the default setting of the checkbox = “checked, meaning unless you uncheck it they are going to charge you $0.66, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you multiply it out by the number of people that get scammed by this, it must be a huge number. I emailed customer service a few times to try to get the charge removed from my bill and was totally ignored. So I definitely looking for a replacement provider, simply because of how these guys choose to do business. Why do some people have to be that way. It’s not necessary. They have a nice service, yet they set it up to rip off people who are not careful. They will say the checkbox default is set that way as a convenience to customers… yeah, right. Now they’d effectively be calling you stupid if they expected you to believe that lie. Sorry for the rant, but I hate this kind of shit and it seems like you see it more and more these days. That Facebook fiasco shows the ethics of the people run that business too. It’s sad.

look at free calling programs that have come before: jajah used to give away $3 of credit with each account sign up, now they give away $.25, skype offered free calling to all north american numbers for almost a year and now its $30 and not a lot of people upgraded, gizmo had an all call free program that has been severely cut back, there are many others here…all got a boom off of their programs, but turning the corner on a sustainable business is very very difficult.

congrats to jaxtr for putting their name on the map, i hope they can turn this into something sustainable.

Any idea what service they used, or how this was done?