November 21st, 2007 posted by alexander drewniak

We were thrilled to see reports this week on a new research study from Disruptive Analysis showing that mobile VoIP will rapidly eclipse voice over WiFi and become a mainstream form of communication. Rebtel users – you are the revolution’s vanguard. Well done!

And for us at Rebtel, third-party validation that your dreams and vision are on the mark always feels super good. Yesterday we got a double dose of such validation when our friends at Jajah finally came around to offering what Rebtel has been doing from day No.1, while our old buddy Om Malik reminded blog watchers worldwide just where this bright idea came from.

What they’re all suddenly so excited about is the concept conceived in early 2006 by our CTO, Jonas Lindroth: voice over the internet – VoIP calls – without the need to be connected to the internet.

What’s cool is that’s exactly what Rebtel users have been doing for more than a year now, every time they needed to make an international call to someone new while not at their computers.

With Rebtel you just call the Rebtel Operator in your country, enter the international phone number you want to call, and instantly receive an SMS with a local number for that person, which you can save, use and dial forever directly from your mobile phone book. Of course, you never have to pay your operator’s super-expensive rates for international calls ever again.

The big difference between Rebtel and the copycats is that with Rebtel you can use this feature to call anywhere in the world from any of the 40 countries where we offer service. In contrast, they can only do this in six countries and offer access numbers in just a couple of cities.

One long-standing Rebtel bigot was so incensed when he saw this “news” that he wrote us a nasty note with the subject heading: “What’s your view? Jajah a complete Rebtel rip-off?”

Well, our view is “no worries”. We know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So happy calling, Rebtel users. And never forget: you are at the forefront of a revolution!

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