I just recieved this over my e-mail from Mira and Ola here at Rebtel.
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Sorry to be a bit of a besserwisser, since I must admit that Telefonica made some wonderful ads. But I doubt they're correct - they don't have the "the lowest call rates from Turkey to Sweden", nor "from Japan to Scotland". We'll be happy to allow you to make your call for the cost of a local one.
Still great ads - just for the wrong company!
I hope it hasn't been possible to miss the launch of the Reb Me application by Rebtel. It's got quite a bit of attention like here, here and here. Well, now we're getting ready to get the next version of the application in the works - but what do we want to add to it? We decided to involve the users - so now everyone can join in the development!
The group is called like the app "Reb me":
Me and Björn had a meeting today to introudce Facebook and our new Reb me application to the whole company. It's great to have that much attention obviously, but the funny thing is that right after the meeting I stumbled on this article from madcomments. I guess that some of "our" 30-somethings might recognize themselves! :)
I've been writing about these walled gardens and how they're doomed to cause reactions previously - I think this is just the first to come of "let's open facebook" activities.
Of course we're all very attuned to Facebook news here at Rebtel now, after a couple of months of intensive online presence by me and Björn and now when we've launched our application.
Rebtel people have started blogging about this - check out more by Alex.
So, we recieved our first review of the app even before we've actually started publishing it a lot - we've just tried to make a sneak peak to our friends etc.
Even though Nick O'Neil's experiences with Rebtel (from Israel - notoriously a hard country when it comes to fees) haven't been entirely positive. Last year I must admit the service wasn't that good to a lot of areas - but it's got a lot better over the last 6 months.
I hope Nick anyway tried out and liked the app itself, hopefully this review will get us a lot of great feedback to it.
For mself - I've been using the app intensely now for a couple of days and I enjoy the slickness in just clicking to get a number to someone.
Check it out to learn about some bad examples! We have been sneak starting our application "Reb me" now on Facebook, we'll be happy to have some feedback :)
If anyone cracks a great idea on how to manage switching between convos on your cellphone in a slick way - please let me know!
I think Three seems like a company that's at least a little bit willing to challenge the way things are done. In UK they've recently cut the roaming charges to 10p when recieving and 19 when calling. This isn't really cheap, but it's at least way below what most operators charge.
In some other mobile news from blognation they point at some more details around the Truphone court case that we've been talking about here at Rebtel. I think it's interesting to see how Truphone is trying to see themselves as a mobile operator while the incumbents are desperate to have Truphone viewed as a fixed line operator - and thus be able to give them less for the transfer of calls.
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i wasn't even aware you could do this kind of stuff through Facebook! read more
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Linus, no offense, but you ain't got to read a book to say intelligent things. You're born with it! =PJust... read more
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on Nice ad, too bad you're not correct