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Beijing and Hong Kong Get Super-Cheap International Phone Service

Stockholm, Sweden – April 23, 2008 – First Shanghai.  Now Beijing and Hong Kong.  In just three months, Rebtel, the people’s global communications company, has delivered on its promise to expand low-cost and free international calling to more Chinese cities.

Starting today, Beijing and Hong Kong residents can use their mobile phones to call any phone, anywhere in the world for just pennies per minute, and make free calls to friends, family, and work colleagues in more than 40 countries.

Using Rebtel Direct, calls from Beijing and Hong Kong to the U.S. and Canada, for example, cost less than 2¢ per minute whether you’re calling a landline or mobile phone.  By comparison, the same calls on China Mobile will cost $1.16 per minute.

“But if you think Rebtel Direct rates are still too expensive you can use our Smart Call system and make that same call for free,” said Hjalmar Winbladh, Rebtel’s co-founder and CEO. “With Rebtel you can now call friends and family in more than 40 countries around the world from Beijing or Hong Kong for nothing more than the cost of calling around the corner.”

A Rebtel account can be set up in just a minute or two.  The service works with any mobile phone just the way it is, and is registered and authorized to work with all Beijing and Hong Kong mobile operators.
There is no charge to set up a Rebtel account.  All newcomers get a free 10 minute call to test the service.

Calls From Beijing and Hong Kong
(cost per minute in U.S. dollars)

After an account is set up subscribers only pay for the minutes they use.  Smart Calls between the countries served by Rebtel are always free and only one of the two people on a call must be a Rebtel subscriber.

“This is a great time to be expanding our service in China,” said Winbladh.  “Hong Kong and Beijing have been important international business centers throughout history, and now athletes and media from more than 200 countries around the world will soon converge on China for the Summer Olympics.”

By: Ola Sundqvist, April 23rd, 2008 Tags: beijing, hjalmar winbladh, hong kong, rebtel

廉价国际长话服务登陆北京香港

廉价国际长话服务登陆北京香港

瑞典斯德哥尔摩（2008 年 4 月 23 日讯） — 先是上海，现在是北京和香港。仅仅三个月的时间，全球性通信企业 Rebtel (http://www.rebtel.com) 便将其率先在中国上海推出的低话费和免费拨打国际长途电话优惠活动推广到了中国更多的城市。

从今天开始，北京和香港的居民可以使用其移动电话拨打世界任何地区的任何电话，而且话费非常便宜。此外，还可以免费与其在 40 个国家/地区的朋友、家庭成员及工作同事通话。

例如，通过 Rebtel Direct 从北京或是香港拨打美国和加拿大地区的电话，无论您是使用固定电话还是移动电话，话费均不超过每分钟 2 美分。对比中国移动 (China Mobile)，同样的通话，资费却高达每分钟 1.16 美元。

Rebtel 的创始人之一兼首席执行官 Hjalmar Winbladh 说：“如果您认为使用 Rebtel Direct 话费仍然偏高，您可以选择使用我们的 Smart Call 系统来免费拨打同样的电话。借助 Rebtel 推出的服务，您现在可以在北京或是香港与全球 40 个国家/地区的亲朋好友免费进行通话。”

只需几分钟的时间，用户便可完成 Rebtel 帐户设置。本服务适用于任何移动电话，无需改变移动电话的使用方式。此外，本服务已获得所有北京和香港的移动运营商的批准。
用户可免费设置 Rebtel 帐户。所有新用户均可享受 10 分钟的免费通话优惠，以测试该项服务。

帐号建立后，用户只需按通话时长付费。在有Rebtel服务支持的国家，Smart Calls通常是免费，并且通话双方只需要有一个是Rebtel 的用户。

Winbladh 进一步介绍到：“北京和香港作为中国重要的国际商务中心由来已久。并且，不久将在北京举行夏季奥运会，届时会有来自 200 多个国家/地区的 10,500名运动员和2万多家媒体出席此次盛会，对我们来说是在中国拓展业务的绝佳机会。”

By: Ola Sundqvist, April 14th, 2008 Tags: china, rebtel

Croatia Gets Free International Calling To More Than 40 Countries

Stockholm, Sweden – April 11, 2008 – Croatians can now use their mobile phones to call any phone, anywhere in the world for just a few lipas per minute, and make free international calls to friends, family, and work colleagues in more than 40 countries. Rebtel, the people’s global communications company, today introduced low cost and free international calling to and from Croatia.

Rebtel services can be used with any mobile phone without modification or software downloads, and does not require any change to customers’ existing plans with their mobile operators. There is no charge to set up a Rebtel account.  And, all new comers get a free 10 minute call to test the service. Thereafter, customers only pay for the minutes they use.

“We started Rebtel because we wanted to do something good for the consumer – connect the Internet and standard mobile phones so people wouldn’t have to pay the operators’ rip-off rates for international calls,” said Hjalmar Winbladh, co-founder and president of Rebtel.

With T-Mobile Croatia, for example, calls to Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Italy, or Slovenia can cost 4,27 HRK ($0.90 USD) per minute.  To most of Europe, the U.K. or the U.S., T-Mobile charges 5,49 HRK ($1.16 USD) per minute. But with Rebtel Direct those same calls now cost just a few lipas.

“And if our low-cost rates are still to expensive for you, you can make it a free calls to 45 other countries with our Smart Call system,” said Winbladh. “It’s super simple to use, and after you’ve done it once you’ll never go back to paying for international calls again.”

Rebtel Rates for Calls from Croatia
(Cost per minute in HRK)

By: Ola Sundqvist, April 11th, 2008 Tags: croatia, hjalmar winbladh, rebtel, VoIP