How to Make Cheap Calls
The Rebtel service allows for a new method of making international calls using your mobile phone. The technology facilitates low-cost mobile-mobile and mobile-landline international calls and works by creating local landline numbers in both the country of origin and destination and routing the international part of the call over VoIP.
For the user, this means only being charged for the cost of a local call saving the need to pay for the international leg of the call. As opposed to other similar services offering calls over VoIP, calls with Rebtel are made without any additional user-installed software, computers or Internet connections and work with any mobile phone and carrier.
How to make cheap calls with Rebtel
Tell us where you’re calling from. Fill out the easy sign up form and tell us which phone you'll use with Rebtel so we know its you when you call. No more PINs.
There are lots of neat mobile VoIP services out in the market – two of my favourites are Truphone and DeFi mobile because of the way they embed themselves into a Nokia S60 handset, provide an additional phone number and just work where there’s WiFi. However one provider that I’ve been taking another look at is Rebtel. Rebtel is aimed at people who call abroad using their mobiles (Rebtel does work just as well from landlines) and (not surprisingly!) don’t want to pay the extortionate rates charged by the mobile operators. Whilst Rebtel uses VoIP to carry the international leg of the call, the call to the local Rebtel number is made using your regular mobile minutes. Rebtel’s killer feature is that it works on any mobile phone; no software to install, no SIM cards to swap over. This can be a five quid or a five hundred quid handset – Rebtel just works.