Founded by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang in October 2005,[3] Jaxtr uses Voice over Internet Protocol to offer competitive rates as well as free international and long distance calling.

[citation needed] On 14 June 2009, Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia's company, Sabsebolo acquired Jaxtr for an unknown amount,[1] which effectively meant closing down the service as stated by co-founder Touraj Parang.

As a hybrid of telephony and Web technologies, Jaxtr is built with Java components and MySQL database servers, which run a protocol-independent calls engine that combines users' voice and text conversations.

Providing users with these DIDs allows them to dial a local number, which is routed through jaxtr’s VoIP system, and connects with the person they are calling internationally.

[9][10] Although initially promoted as a free product, Jaxtr later asked some users to pay for delivery of SMS messages to countries other than India and the USA.