We all know that one can make good friends in Facebook, the world’s well knows social marketing web site. You can chat with friends, write to them and keep in touch with them. But if your Facebook friend happens to be at the other end of the globe, you will think twice before you pick up your phone to call your friend. Now, according to a report in PRNewswire, you can even do that for the cost of your local call. What’s more, you can even make this call directly from your mobile phone!
This is possible because of Rebtel (News - Alert) Inc. a leading provider of VoIP
telephony, which has launched an application for Facebook users to make calls anywhere in the world for the price of a local call directly from their mobile phone. The company promises great savings for its customers because the calls are local calls. According to Hjalmar Winbladh, founder and CEO of Rebtel Inc. an average Facebooker in US, whco spends just 30 minutes a month calling overseas using Rebtel, can expect to save more than $750.
So how does Rebtel provide this service? Well, it’s really simple at least for the users. A user has to log in to http://apps.facebook.com/myrebtel to register their phone numbers. Once their number is registered, all they have to do is to enter the international destination number to any country in the world. Rebtel’s application will turn this number into a local number and the charges will be billed as local call charges. There is more; if the two calling parties are among the 37 member Rebtel Community, and if both the callers are registered with Rebtel, the call is absolutely free!
Like Facebook, Rebtel too believes in making communication simple, affordable, and convenient as possible. The first visible proof of this promise is the fact that the service works on every mobile device, including iPhone (News - Alert), Blackberry, and every cellular network.
Facebook is already the fastest growing Internet community in the world. The Rebtel application is exclusively designed for Facebook and such applications will definitely attract more people to the site.
Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page. Voice over IP (VoIP) | X |
| A real-time communications system that converts voice into digital packets containing media and signaling data that travel over networks using Internet Protocol....more |
SUBSCRIPTIONS
TMCnet LOGIN
WEBINARS
