Thursday, 4 December, 2008
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Shanghai Daily offers
International calls with REBTEL
Shanghai Daily has partnered with Rebtel to bring you low cost international calls from your mobile. For the cost of a local call you can reach any country worldwide from your mobile. Shanghai Daily is offering our readers the chance to try it free.
Exclusive free minutes
Sign up to Rebtel today and get 30 minutes FREE international calls courtesy of Shanghai Daily. Just enter "ShanghaiDaily" when prompted for a code during the sign up process. VIP card holders get more free minutes by entering the password on your card.
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Rebtel is a new international calls provider who are slashing the costs of calling from mobiles. The concept is simple: you give Rebtel phone numbers from another country, and they give you back a local number to call for a low price.
By routing calls through the internet Rebtel keep costs low. But unlike other internet phone providers such as Skype Rebtel is not tied to a computer and does not require you to download software. You can simply call from your exisiting mobile phone.
You also pay for a local call. See More Rates
* 30 minute offer restricted to these nineteen countries. For more rates see Rebtel rates.
Shanghai Daily reporters tested Rebtel services for calling from Shanghai to the UK in Europe. After an initial registration process we found the calls provided by Rebtel to be well worth the effort.
Li Chu, a 33-year-old living in San Francisco, was being charged $1.49 per minute by Verizon to stay in touch with his friends and family in Hong Kong. When he got sick of paying hundreds of dollars each month in mobile phone bills, Li Chu decided to try Rebtel.
“Rebtel is amazing,” said Li Xiao, founder of an internet company in Emeryville, which like many of today’s innovative companies, has operations spread all over the globe, including offices in Shanghai and London.
“Calling cards are crap. All I would get is 20 minutes and then the card was out of money.” For the last six years, designer Katrin Romare, founders of Alice&Sens has divided her time between her two homes in Shanghai and Stockholm, Sweden, and knew there had to be a better way to call international calls.