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

Initial partners include Jajah, Gizmo5, Ribbit, Rebtel, Mobivox, VoipBuster, Voxeo, Voipuser BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 11th, 2008- Voxbone, a leading provider of local telephone numbers to communications services providers and businesses worldwide, today announced iNum — one global telephone number that enables anyone to establish a local presence anywhere in the world.  Voxbone is mak...

In my post last Thursday I commented on Rebtel’s dispute with O2 Germany over access to Rebtel numbers. Rebtel has just announced that O2 is no longer blocking these numbers. There’s no detail in the annoucement as to how this was resolved but it would seem that common sense prevailed. This is great news for

O2 Germany’s recent move to block Rebtel’s access numbers looks like yet another attempt by the big operators to preserve ‘their world’ at the expense of competition and customer choice. Other recent examples include Truphone’s interconnect issues, disabled VoIP clients on operator branded Nokia handsets and specific 07 number ranges excluded from call bundles. It rem...

VoIP company Rebtel has inked an agreement with easyGroup to resell its mobile VoIP service through easyMobile's website. By signing up with Rebtel via easyMobile, users will be able to make cheap international calls over mobile VoIP using “any mobile phone, over any UK network”, according to the companies. Those signing up will pay for a

As a result of the recent disasters in both China and Burma, RebTel have made all calls to the region free — as their email out to their customers reads: No strings attached, just call and make sure they are OK. Good policy, this. I've been using RebTel regularly to call the States and South

Pat Phelan's suggestions on reducing your telecoms bill are all worth a read, even if you're not a penny pinching Scotsman. Naturally he does mention his MaxRoam SIM card, but this is a much more over-arching look at your entire budget - from Skype and Rebtel to specific mobile plans and roaming options, there's probably something here for everyone.

I think my eyesight was going nuts yesterday when I wrote the post on RebTel. I checked my account rates and saw it was what looked like 8 pence per minute. Not bad, I thought. Bit steep but, you know, not bad for the service level, especially when I can use my

A while ago I thought I should take another look at RebTel. They got $20m worth of investment, after all (see RedHerring funding announcement). I wondered how they were doing. Armed with a new mobile number and, effectively, a new identity, I signed-up the other day when I needed to talk to a few

Today the FCC announced that it will be investigating recent reports of SMS discrimination among the U.S. carriers, and whether SMS is even covered under the non-descrimination portions of the telecom act. Rebtel, which offers low-cost VOIP options to mobile phone users via SMS short code, has filed a complaint after being turned down by