Google Voice is a nifty phone service that gives you a new phone number. But, it’s not just any number. It replaces all your existing numbers that you have for all your other phones. Your office phone, your work mobile, your home phone and so on and so forth. Once you have a Voice account, you can connect all those existing phones to your new Google Voice number, so when someone gives you a call, all three of your phones associated with Google Voice will ring. Pretty cool.
You can also use Google Voice to initiate calls from your browser and the good thing about it is that if you live in the US or Canada, you can make domestic calls completely free of charge. Add Rebtel to the mix, who gives you a local number to call instead of your friends’ international numbers, and suddenly you don’t have to pay the local cost for the call to your regular carrier when you call abroad with Rebtel. Only the super cheap Rebtel rates, which are considerably lower than Google’s.
How To Call With Rebtel Using Google Voice
1. Get a Google Voice account here.
2. Get a Rebtel account here. Don’t forget to sign up with your new Google Voice number that you got in the first step. If you already have a Rebtel account, just add your new Google Voice number to your account under Settings and make it a preferred phone.
3. Add the international number that you want to call to your Rebtel contact list. A local number will be instantly generated and sent to you via email and SMS so you can easily save it to your address book on your phone.
4. Open up Google Voice your in browser, type in the local Rebtel number to your friend that you got in the previous step and start talking away.
Lastly, don’t forget that you can call friends living in one of our 50 countries for free. When they pick up, ask them to hang up and call you back on the local number displayed on their phone while you stay on the line. The call will be instantly connected, and in addition to not paying for the local part of the call, you won’t have to pay the Rebtel charge for the international part of the call either. Talk for as long as you want, for free.
If your friend is running our Android app, the call will automatically be turned into a Rebtel Free Call without him having to hang up and call you back.
Happy calling!
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