Jaxtr, a company we've covered extensively in the past here at Mashable, is announcing the deployment of a new feature that allows members to send free SMS messages to anyone worldwide, regardless of whether or not they're a member of the jaxtr service - covering mobile phones in 38 countries. Basic membership to jaxtr is already free, and this new service adds new free functionality to 10 million users with the company - a number of folks up from a reported 5 million back in September.
Jaxtr operatates very similarly to Jangl's system, a company we explored earlier today with the founders on an episode of Mashable Conversations. Essentially, Jaxtr and Jangl both provide widgets that allow folks to be messaged on virtual or pre-existing mobile phones from just about every social networking platform in existence.
The death of mobile is greatly exaggerated, according to both Jaxtr and Jangl. Figures provided to us by Jaxtr from the atest annual report from Research and Markets say that in 2008, there will be over two trillion SMS text messages sent across the planet, a figure that spells profits for both carriers and application providers.
To learn more about the world of social media and its intersection with the mobile messaging world, check out today's Mashable Conversations conversation with Michael Cerda of Jangl. The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
