Rebtel Cuts Cellular Rates Off At The Knees For International Calls
Source: www.voip-news.com
We just ran across a really neat application for VoIP technology that is being used to give international mobile phone users a really cheap way to call one another. Rebtel gets users to register their location at each end of the call and then assigns each user a temporary local number. Each user then calls their local number, paying only for a local call and the two local calls are bridged via VoIP by Rebtel. While this is a slightly complicated setup, since international mobile phone calls are so expensive, Rebtel can save users a LOT of money. Rebtel charges US$1 per week for the service and users do have to pay local mobile phone calling charges.
Another way to look at this is that rather than saving international mobile/cell phone users a lot of money, it is going to cut out a highly profitable segment of the cellular provider’s business.
And look for some enterprising person to start building a directory of Rebtel users so that callers can call without having to do a setup beforehand. Of course, for that to fully succeed it’s going to have to track presence as well.
