Would you like to use the hundreds of spare local minutes that you get with your mobile plan towards international calls. This is something which Rebtel has gone ahead and made possible and their technology reroutes international and long distance calls through VoIP.

On the site of Rebtel, the subscriber is required to submit the name, phone number and location and enter the information of the person they intend to call and then the company would generate the local number for the caller and recipient. Only once a subscriber needs to get the number.

Once the phone number has been generated the subscriber uses his mobile for calling the local number. While the person is on the line, the person and his friend call the local number from a mobile phone and since the two numbers are connected through Rebtel's servers, they could have share VoIP call.

The service costs just $ 1 a week and in return one gets unlimited long distance calls and that is added to the price of their local cell phone plans. A lot of talk minutes go unused each month and with the aid of this technology, the extra phone minutes could be used towards making international calls which are quite expensive when made from cell phones. In order to use this service one has to sign up for five weeks in advance for just $ 5 and certainly this is less when compared to the charge for making international calls from your mobile phone.

This idea struck the CEO of the company when he ran into Niklas Zennstrom of Skype. Wow!! Skype has enlightened a number of brains.