Rebtel has got some of the world’s lowest call rates to over 200 countries. Rebtel can connect your international calls over the Internet and pass the savings directly on to you. Rebtel customers would enjoy high-quality connections. Rebtel customers get 100% of the minutes of what they pay for, with no monthly plans or subscriptions. There is no connection or hang-up fees. Rebtel uses local rates for global calls and customers are not restricted to a specific phone or carrier. There is no phone cards or PINs. Customers of Rebtel get to manage their accounts online.

Using Rebtel with your phone

How do you use Rebtel for cheap international calls with your usual phone? First you need to sign up for a free Rebtel account. Then you need to enter an international number to your friend and get a unique local number back. After that save it to your phone. With rebtel, you can now use it forever and whenever.

Rebtel reportedly has slashed calling rates to Chile during March. Rebtel said that the company has lowered the rates effective immediately for all calls to land lines and mobiles in Chile from 19.9 cents to 13.5 cents. Similarly, the old rate to landlines was 2.8 cents and the new one now is 2.2 cents. This is in support and sympathy for the earthquake victims of Chile and their loved ones abroad. The reduced rates are available for existing as well as new Rebtel users.

Swedish based voip company Rebtel has announced that it has acquired Free World Dialing, a mobile calling application, from Talkster for an undisclosed amount. The company notes that under the agreement, Rebtel will now carry all of Talkster’s international calls and Free World Dialing customers will now have access to unlimited free international mobile calls between 52 countries.

The joined services will now offer customers a quick and easy way to call internationally from your mobile phones. To use, customers sign up for a free account, enter an international number into the contact form and receive a unique local number to store to their phone. The principle is that Rebtel will connect the local number to the international number through the internet, costing the customer only pennies instead of traditional international rates.

While former Talkster customers mainly used the service for international mobile calls, they will now have access to several additional Rebtel services, including Rebtel Computer Calls as well as Rebtel SMS for international text messaging.

Apple has approved for Rebtel to have an iPhone app that would allow users make calls to anywhere in the world without having to search for a Wi-Fi hot spot. Further, there are free calls available within any of the 53 countries where Rebtel is available. The app is avialable at itune store http://bit.ly/RebtelApp.

To use the Rebtel iPhone app, just open the app, select the phone number of an international friend from your usual iPhone address book or type in their number, tap the Call with Rebtel button, and Rebtel takes over from there to connect the call instantly.

Rebtel has announced that Apple has approved their VoIP application which is downloadable from iTunes Store. The service also works over AT&T’s 3G network, making it less necessary to have a Wi-Fi connection.

Rebtel joins a growing rank of Internet telephony applications including Skype, Truphone, Nimbuzz, Fring and Vonage. Rebtel’s voip application allows iPhone owners to make calls to anywhere in the world for “just pennies per minute without having to search for a WiFi hot spot”, as claimed by Andreas Bernström, CEO of Rebtel. Further free calls are possible between any of the 50 countries where Rebtel is available.

To use Rebtel iPhone application, open the application and select the phone number from the onboard address book or type in their number. Tap the Call with Rebtel button and Rebtel takes over from there to connect the call straight away.

Swedish VoIP company Rebtel has its phone numbers being blocked by German mobile operator E-Plus. It has been a week since the 18 million E-Plus clients unable to use the rebtel services to divert their international calls for a fraction of the original price over the internet. A similar incident happened a year ago when O2 Germany blocked Rebtel calls the same way. Two weeks later the ban had to be lifted, after Rebtel had urged its users to write O2 Germany’s CEO personally.