Call China free with our Million Minute Giveaway! January 30th, 2008  

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Gong xi fa cai – Happy Chinese New Year! Chinese tradition says that the first words heard on the first day of the year can affect your fortunes for the entire year.

Now, we’re not superstitious (honest!) but we’re very into anything that will spread happiness. That’s why we’re running a Million Minute Giveaway for the duration of the Chinese New Year Festivities.

On 7 February 2008, we’re going to give away 1,000,000 minutes. These minutes can be used for calls from any Rebtel Country to China, and for calls from Shanghai to the USA and China. Rebtel customers can make up to five hours of free calls each, and the Giveaway runs until February 21 (or until the million minutes are used up – whichever comes first.)

“The Chinese New Year is a celebration of change,” said Hjalmar Winbladh, Rebtel’s CEO. “So out with the old way of calling China, and in with the new – the Rebtel way. Give it a try. Saving money on long-distance calls is one way to ensure that you prosper financially for the rest of the year!’

To find out more or to join Rebtel, visit http://www.rebtel.com/china.

By: admin

Global Group Talking January 17th, 2008  

Today Rebtel launched a new Facebook application called Group Talk that lets you setup free conference calls with people in any of the 40 Rebtel countries. 

If you’re not a Facebook user you should join just to use Group Talk.  It makes it super easy to set up free conference calls and has lots of cool bells and whistles worth checking out. 

Once you’ve downloaded Group Talk you can set up a free conference call with as may people as you want in less than a minute.  You just enter your Facebook friends’ names, and click Add.  You can then make the call private – just for the people invited – or public, which makes the call open to any of your friends who want to join. To include people who are not Facebook users you enter the participants’ names, mobile phone numbers or landline numbers and their email addresses, and click Add.  That’s it. Everyone invited to a Group Talk call automatically receives a local dial-in number in the city or country where they live via SMS (text message) or email.  For the first person who joins a conference call, Group Talk offers to notify all of the other invited participants that the Group Talk session is starting. 

Facebook users are able to see public Group Talk conference calls as they’re happening that have been set up by their friends, by members of the Facebook groups that they’ve joined, or by the organizers of events they’ve been invited to attend, and can get a phone number to join any of those Group Talk calls with a single click of the mouse. 

And because Group Talk is built by Rebtel, conference call participants’ personal phone numbers are always kept private. 

Group Talk conference calls are always free – no matter how long you talk. So give it a try.  Do something fun.  Get your friends or family together to celebrate someone’s birthday.  If you’re an Aussie living abroad, set up a Group Talk call with all your mates back home the Saturday after next for Australia Day.  And now that Rebtel is up and running in Shanghai don’t forget Chinese New Year – it’s just around the corner. But whatever you do with Group Talk please drop us a line and tell us what you think.  We hope you enjoy it. Happy talking.

By: alexander drewniak

VoIP services compared – and we’re the ‘overall best choice’! January 15th, 2008  

Rebtel 'overall best choice' of VoIP service

The folks at lucafiligheddu.com decided to compare a bunch of VOIP services. They bought a PAYG SIM card from T-Mobile and, beyond the initial set-up, didn’t use a PC while on the go.

Services compared were Jajah Direct, Mobivox, RebTel ,Talkster and WifiMobile. Rebtel was considered to have the best features and to be the overall best choice. The review concludes:

“RebTel offers the most complete range of features at a very competitive price, letting you choose what to do, whether to use your Rebtel credit for calling out or sharing the cost with the person you are calling by using the call back feature.”

They go on to say:

“I praise RebTel for having really improved their service since its first launch, so that it deserves to be selected as the best choice in this comparison.”

We’re blushing! Cheers dudes. We’re glad you like the service.

By: admin

a heart-warming Rebtel tale January 4th, 2008  

Happy new year! And what nicer way to begin 2008 than with this email from a lady called Erica:

Hi Rebtel,

I just wanted to thank you for the service you provide! I met the love of my life in May 2007, and until I found your website I was paying phone bills in excess of £400 per month. You have not only reduced my bill to £14 per month, but made it possible for me to keep in contact with him on a more regular basis – and his family too.

Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!!!

Regards, Erica

Aw, cheers Erica. Anyone else have a similarly heart-warming Rebtel tale? We’d love to hear it!

By: admin

Rebtel extends holiday campaign January 2nd, 2008  

We’ve extended our holiday campaign through to January 10th 2007. This means that all Rebtel customers making a payment for the first time will receive a 3 for 1 deal – if they pay $10, they’ll get $30 in their accounts! Customers can choose to donate the extra cash to charity, give it to a friend, or keep it themselves. Offer closes 11pm GMT on 16th January, so head to www.rebtel.com to grab yourselves a bargain!

By: admin