Re: Why wireless isn't wide open

On 2007-12-12, SMS ???? ? <scharf.steven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Larry wrote:
>> Nomen Nescio <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
>> news:5ef12e4849fafda4f0ae3abae661a3c6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> http://xrl.us/bcprt
>> 
>> "Global Calls for Less
>> 
>> One company rebuffed by the carriers is Rebtel Networks, a 
>> Swedish provider of cheap international calls over the Web. 
>> Rebtel wants to use short codes to bring its service to mobile 
>> phones. Users would send a text message containing the desired 
>> global phone number to Rebtel's short code. They would then 
>> receive a text message with a local phone number to dial, paying 
>> pennies per minute for the call rather than the much higher sums 
>> cellular carriers charge for overseas connections."
>
> It's already very easy to do this using something like OneSuite or 
> TalkLoop. Where it all falls apart is when calling a mobile phone in a 
> country with "Caller Pays" because the charge for calling the mobile 
> phone is so high.

You can dial-through with their service too, just like OneSuite or
TalkLoop, but their main feature is that they'll give you individual
local numbers for each of the contacts you want one for which just
ring through to the overseas phone directly.

They also have a solution for calling overseas mobiles.  If the person
you call hangs up and then calls back the CLID number that came with
the call (which will be a local-to-them landline number) the remainder
of the call will be free of charge from Rebtel.

Dennis Ferguson