Rebtel Blog

Rebtel was mentioned in Rhodri Marsden’s Cyberclinic column in today’s Independent newspaper:

Distance should, at least in theory, be an irrelevance in today’s telephony market, a point stressed by Mat Goff at Rebtel. Their service offers the cute, inexpensive trick of assigning your friends abroad with a local British telephone number, which you store in your mobile phone – the service drastically reduces your bills. “If you call the USA a lot, and you want to do it from your mobile for 1p a minute,” says Matt, ” Rebtel is… well, almost stupidly useful.” These days, if claims sound too good to be true, it is worth investigating, regardless; innovations such as Rebtel’s will continue to spring up, and continue to change the way we make phone calls.

It’s always good to be described as an innovative, useful, inexpensive service. However it’s interesting to note that the article lumps Rebtel in with calling cards and web-based VoIP services. As mentioned in yesterday’s post on Rebtel + iPhone, what differentiates Rebtel from other services is that Rebtel changes the negative aspects of global calls – avoiding expensive operator charges and allowing you to talk internationally for the cost of a local call while retaining the postitive aspects of the mobile experience. With Rebtel, users don’t need to change the methods used to make a call – they dial direct from their mobile’s address book.

Once the user has set up their local numbers, dialling a Rebtel contact is exactly the same as making any other mobile-to-mobile call. No headsets, no browsers, no downloads, no need to dial two sets of numbers – just instant, low-cost, international calls on your mobile at the touch of a button.

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