Rebtel Blog

Now it’s time to get a little sentimental (we’re emotional people so please bear with us). Rebtel was introduced in May of 2006 and it’s a sure thing to say that we’ve managed to come a long way since then. Throughout almost two and a half years millions of smart people around the globe have been connected with their friends, family and business acquaintances by trusting the Rebtel way of making international calls. For this we would like to thank you. We want to thank you for all the support and most importantly for taking a stand against all carriers that charge you those ridiculous rates when you want to call your mom back home. We’ve said from the start that we are in this to win this and we are more determined than ever to deliver on that promise. One day all calling will be free and you can consider yourself a big part of making that happen.

Now that we’re over and done with all the reminiscing, we can continue to checking out the new features on the Rebtel site. To get a visual of all the features, click on the thumbnail below and you’ll be taken to our Flickr page.

Visual of New Features

Enhanced contact management

• Tabbed Browsing

Some of you have contact lists that are pretty big. That’s not a hassle anymore since we’re introducing a completely new way to manage your contacts. The all-new ‘Favorites’ tab makes it easy to find the contacts you call most frequently. Simply click the star next to the name of your contact, and they’ll appear under your Favorites tab for easy access. You can also view a list of your recent activity, or click ‘All’ to see all your contacts in alphabetical order.

• Multi-Numbers

We’ve also made it much easier to store details for each contact. Previously, if you had two separate numbers for a contact - a mobile number and an office number, for example - the contact would appear in your contact list twice (not very convenient). So, instead of having multiple entries with the same name, you can now save several numbers under one contact name – this makes it much easier to find the right number you’re looking for.

• Rate Display

No more rushing off to the rates page to see the current price of calling to your friend - you now have all the rates handy right on your contacts page next to your friends local Rebtel number. This will make it so much easier for you to easily keep track of how you’re spending your Rebtel credit.

• Contact Search

You can instantly find who you’re looking for with just a few keystrokes - our seach engine will now return results to you before you’ve even finished typing the name. It’s also possible to search among your friends’ contact lists. No need to trouble your friend for a mutual friends number - you can easily find it yourself.

Collect Calls

Did you know that your contacts can call you collect? If they’re in a Rebtel country but don’t have a Rebtel account, they can call your Rebtel number and the call will be debited from your Rebtel account. This is a great way for people back home to get in touch with you if they’re for some reason unable to add credit.

If someone calls you collect, we’ll now ask your permission before connecting the call. We’ll also inform you of the per minute rate that will be debited from your account if you choose to accept the call. In your settings menu you can choose to always accept, always reject or if you to choose make that decision every time someone calls you collect. Now all of this is up to you.

Protect Your Privacy

Of course, it’s up to you how much info to share. You can fine-tune your settings to keep your original phone number private, only show it to your friends, allow your friend of a friend or even all the cool people that use Rebtel to see it to easily get a local Rebtel number for you. Now isn’t that so ace?

Share Rebel With Your Fiends

You don’t want to keep all the good thing to yourself, do you? We didn’t think so. Here at Rebtel we live by the motto “sharing is caring” and with regards to that, we’ve added more features to make it even easier to tell your friends about Rebtel. You can quickly track the status of your invites to see if your invites are pending, or if your friends have already signed up and started enjoying the benefits of making cheap calls.

That’s about it for now. I apologize for the long post but I really felt like telling you everything there is to say and not hold anything back All of us here at Rebtel sincerely hope you will enjoy all this new stuff and if you have any questions you can check out our Get Satisfaction page or send us an email to customerteam@rebtel.com

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