What is REALLY neat about Rebtel is that when I am in the US, my contacts all have US local numbers to dial. When I am in the UK, I have UK numbers, and when in Australia, I have numbers specific to the State that I am in! Cool. I get the cheapest access numbers at any time automatically changing based on the location/primary phone I am using.

I am also a Skype2Go user, have used Gizmo and others, but Rebtel has it sorted. So simple, so flexible and so easy to manage.

So, that leaves me with the Voicemail problem. So i’ve solved this with a service from a small company in Australia called Immedian and their iVMS service. Very neat. I divert my voicemail in each country to the iVMS number, and my voicemails are delivered to me via MMS - directly to my phone, on my phone, so no need to dial to listen. I can listen to them any time, as many times as I like. iVMS is like Apple’s iPhone voicemail, but works on ANY PHONE, ANYWHERE. And if I want, I can also access my voicemails over the web on my personal iVMS web page. I can even change the avatar of specific contacts!

Traveling like I do, it’s been difficult to find a single service that reduces my costs - this combined solution is simply effective, easy, and makes me very efficient.

Mike

“At least with Softphones like Gizmo Project or Skype, or even a service like Vonage, there isn’t a substantial change in how you dial your phone numbers. Of course, I’ve heard numerous complaints from customers of Vonage-like services about things like 7 and 10 digit dialing, so even they aren’t perfect.”

I like how you explained that. Very helpful. Thanks.

I post my jaxtr widget on my website and anyone who visits it has a way to easily call me…and nobody ever has to know my phone number. If I decide I dont want to hear from someone after they call me once, I can block them from ever getting through again.

As social networking becomes more and more prevalent and people are looking to add synchronous communication to preexisting wall posts/email messages/etc–jaxtr will flourish.

From what I have seen in the new voice 2.0 arena Rebtel’s leverage of VOIP technology gets my vote.

With JAJAH Mobile: Select the contact in your cell phones addressbook and click the call key on your cell phone.
Result: Free or close to free international calls.

With JAJAH Web: Every phone number on any website or within Outlook or your computers addressbook becomes clickable. Click on the number you want call and your phone (landline or mobile) will ring INSTEAD of taking your phone typing in the number you want to call and hiting the call key.

What could be more convenient and less changing your habits?

It’s just a simple phone call. Now, if your friend hangs up and calls back also to a local number, it is one extra step, but the call gets even cheaper. I have some friends I call everyday. It is actually very simple to use. I love it!