Rebtel Free plan isnt really FREE

Rebtel, A mobile VOIP company announces free international calls to almost 36 destinations, which includes UK, Us, Brazil, Chile, Peru etc. definately some countries which never make it to the mobile voip free list. I appreciate Rebtel could make it possible.

However the biggest reservation i have about their service is about the "FREE" component. I mean it's not free to be honest. Its only FREE if you have a mobile plan in your country (one of the 36) which gives you a certain talktime free each month. You can utilise that to make free calls via rebtel. but you must be wondering why would i need to use my local minutes when i am calling a international number? Thats the catch. Let me explain.

According to them, this is how it works:

1. Call your friend on their Rebtel Number(They send you a SMS when you sign up.)
2. When they answer, ask them to look at the number displayed on their phone screen. Tell them to hang up, and call you straight back on that number.
3. Now for the weird bit. Don’t hang up when they do, but stay on the line.
4. A couple of seconds later, they’ll join you back on the call.

That weird bit is so confusing and also the looking at the number, hanging up and calling back again. This seems the best of the Indian mobile community. Wonder why? Because Indians are the no.1 missed call users. I am sure 50% of people in India use missed call for communicating and still indian companies make huge profits. :-)

anyways, so if you have those free minutes, then here is what you got. and if you dont have those free minutes then rebtel charges you starting at 2 cents per minutes

• 10 international calls a month
• Talk for as long as you like
• No contract, open
  to all

They don't have Singapore included in country list, so i can test it myself anyways. However, if anyone has any experience using them, please share.

Let me reiterate, Rebtel free plan isnt really FREE.