Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

I notice when I write telecom’s pieces here that they don’t get the amount of comments that they used to. Maybe its because I write about lots of different stuff now? People are always asking me who do I recommend for long distance calls In my opinion there is only one service I use at [...]

Whilst Skype generally isn’t my cup of tea, its reach is huge, I was looking at a few rankings this morning and thinking huge congrats must be due to my friends at Jajah. Then I happened to take out Truphone and add Skype to the inquiry, results below kind of bought me back to reality. [...]

I think Rebtel CEO Hjalmar Windblah should do one of those crazy adverts, you know the ones, “Come on down, we are giving these calls away, he har” Seriously though, Rebtel’s pricing changed today and its bloody amazing. More below from Rebtel blog New Users All new users that sign up from today (you have [...]

Great to see a whole bunch of new features on Rebtel One really caught my eye though. Rebtel Call Collect “Did you know that your contacts can call you collect? If they’re in a Rebtel country but don’t have a Rebtel account, they can call your Rebtel number and the call will be debited from [...]

Rebtel is one of the pair of telephony products I use every day (the other being truphone) Well news has reached me that O2 Germany have now blocked the German Rebtel access numbers. I presume that these numbers come from Voxbone or any number of voip DID providers which mean that O2 are blocking all [...]

Just in Heathrow on the way back to Cork after a busy day in London. I spent the afternoon at Balderton Capital which was turned into Rebtel’s London HQ for my visit. Rebtel CEO Hjalmar Windbladh was there to welcome me and after the business was out of the way Hjalmar opened his books and [...]

I was browsing through my feeds and read this from Ewan. Rebtel and easyMobile ink mobile VoIP deal This is a very interesting development for the Swedish company who appear to be on the up and up especially this year with some large announcements and some big deals inked. The easy group are one of [...]

Rebtel continue to impress me more each day. With the recent tragedies in Burma (Myanmar) and China the Swedish company have again pulled out all the stops. They are offering free calls to both countries until the 22nd of May. Here is the announcement on the company Blog. Ewan has more. Share this:

Rebtel appear to be on the up and up, I noticed the stats last week and put a call out to Co-Founder Greg Spector yesterday. Greg says “Rebtel has finally started to take off and spread like wild fire. It really began to accelerate in October last year. Today we’re doubling in size every three [...]