Comments on: Jajah and Rebtel: my thoughts http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html Social Media, VoIP and a lot of Tech News Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:31:52 -0700 hourly 1 By: Rebtel Open in China http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html/comment-page-1#comment-4196 Rebtel Open in China Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:34:02 +0000 http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html#comment-4196 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] ease-of-use and start to alienate customers. You can read more on how this works at Rebtel from Luca and Aswath, or the view from 30,000 feet from Rebtel themselves. digg_url = [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] ease-of-use and start to alienate customers. You can read more on how this works at Rebtel from Luca and Aswath, or the view from 30,000 feet from Rebtel themselves. digg_url = [...]

]]> By: Greg Spector http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html/comment-page-1#comment-143 Greg Spector Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:54:05 +0000 http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html#comment-143 Luca - I feel compelled to clarify a few things.<br/><br/>We charge $1 per week to use our services to talk to as many friends as you like for as long and as often as you want. If you don't use the service one week we don't bill you.<br/><br/>If you ask your friend to call back there is no additional fee. All you and your friend pay for is your local minutes to your carrier.<br/><br/>But asking your friend to call back is an option. If they don't call back all you pay is a tiny per minute fee to cover the interconnect charge -- 2 cents a minute, for example, from Stockholm to New York; or 4 cents a minute from San Francisco to Beijing. All the per minute rates on our website www.rebtel.com <br/><br/>Also, Rebtel works with all mobile phones unless they’re broken. No software downloads.<br/><br/>And with Rebtel, you set up the local numbers just once, they're sent you your phones in text messages, and you can save them to your standard address book and dial from your standard address book forever. No numbers to remember. Just call your friend.<br/><br/>Speaking of calling your friend -- here's my email address: greg@rebtel.com. I invite you and anyone reading your blog to drop me a note with their mobile number and I'll set up a local number for you to call where you live to reach me in Stockholm this week, and you can see for yourself how easy it is to use and how great the sound quality is.<br/><br/>It’s your call. Luca – I feel compelled to clarify a few things.

We charge $1 per week to use our services to talk to as many friends as you like for as long and as often as you want. If you don’t use the service one week we don’t bill you.

If you ask your friend to call back there is no additional fee. All you and your friend pay for is your local minutes to your carrier.

But asking your friend to call back is an option. If they don’t call back all you pay is a tiny per minute fee to cover the interconnect charge — 2 cents a minute, for example, from Stockholm to New York; or 4 cents a minute from San Francisco to Beijing. All the per minute rates on our website http://www.rebtel.com

Also, Rebtel works with all mobile phones unless they’re broken. No software downloads.

And with Rebtel, you set up the local numbers just once, they’re sent you your phones in text messages, and you can save them to your standard address book and dial from your standard address book forever. No numbers to remember. Just call your friend.

Speaking of calling your friend — here’s my email address: greg@rebtel.com. I invite you and anyone reading your blog to drop me a note with their mobile number and I’ll set up a local number for you to call where you live to reach me in Stockholm this week, and you can see for yourself how easy it is to use and how great the sound quality is.

It’s your call.

]]> By: Stefan Timm http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html/comment-page-1#comment-142 Stefan Timm Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:46:06 +0000 http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html#comment-142 JaJah's founders are trying to tell the public in general and the investment community in particular that they have a better cost structure than their competitors as they hand over calls from the internet to the PSTN in a decentralized fashion. What a crap.<br/><br/>Backbone cost ist not sensitive to distance. Where you hand over VoIP traffic for PSTN termination does not effect cost.<br/><br/>Therefore I strongly believe the other claims like ARPU made by JaJah founders are not the least accurate and should be ignored if not declared lies.<br/><br/>A fool who can't see that. JaJah’s founders are trying to tell the public in general and the investment community in particular that they have a better cost structure than their competitors as they hand over calls from the internet to the PSTN in a decentralized fashion. What a crap.

Backbone cost ist not sensitive to distance. Where you hand over VoIP traffic for PSTN termination does not effect cost.

Therefore I strongly believe the other claims like ARPU made by JaJah founders are not the least accurate and should be ignored if not declared lies.

A fool who can’t see that.

]]> By: Jeff Pulver http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html/comment-page-1#comment-141 Jeff Pulver Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:32:01 +0000 http://www.lucafiligheddu.com/2006/09/jajah-and-rebtel-my-thoughts.html#comment-141 Happy to connect up in person when I am in Rome for VON Italy. Rebtel is playing 100% in the SIP domain. Think about what this means in terms of the way 'phone numbers' might be managed. Now overlay the fact that Nokia plans to be selling hundreds of millions of E61 like devices that support SIP. Now try to connect the dots and you will see how Rebtel ends up becoming a major player in the world of Fixed Mobile Convergence thanks to end-user / consumer empowerment. Happy to connect up in person when I am in Rome for VON Italy. Rebtel is playing 100% in the SIP domain. Think about what this means in terms of the way ‘phone numbers’ might be managed. Now overlay the fact that Nokia plans to be selling hundreds of millions of E61 like devices that support SIP. Now try to connect the dots and you will see how Rebtel ends up becoming a major player in the world of Fixed Mobile Convergence thanks to end-user / consumer empowerment.

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