Call India using your free mobile minutes

Here is another service that although doesn't provide free calls to India but calls are quite cheap. But the big selling point is you can make these calls from your mobile to India. With major mobile companies having started charging non geographical numbers like 0844, 0870 there was a need for some service to utilise our free minutes available on mobile to make calls to India or other international destinations.

For many countries you can call free with this service, see the section "Make free International Calls From Mobile" below. For other countries it is quite cheap. Like for India it charges less than 3 pence if you are calling from UK. It is prepaid service where you have to top-up your account before making your calls. You are provided local phone number which will most likely be included in you free mobile minutes.

Good thing is that you can test the service before committing yourself. Once you open the account you are given 10 free minutes to make international call. You can use these minutes to make your first international call free of charge.

Make Free International Calls From Mobiles

You can make free international calls to 37 countries mainly Europe ,Australia, North America and the Far East with a clever piece of kit provided by a new company named Rebtel ,simply by dialing a local rate phone number.if you've free minutes on your mobile this call will be included, if not you'll only pay a local call rate.

How to get your free minutes ?

• Go to the rebtel site,
• Click the 'How it works' tab,
• Then the 'Make a smart call' tab,

The first time you call someone using it, enter the person you're calling's number on its site, and it'll text you a local phone number to call. This then works every time you call that person, so save it in your mobile's address book for the future, and you won't need to return to the website.

To make free calls:

• Dial the local number.

You're then connected to the person you're calling and should ask them to immediately call the number they see displayed on their mobile.

If they're on a landline, it will send them an e-mail for the first call, the same number's then useable each subsequent time. The number will be a local one in their country. You have only 15 seconds to do this.

• Stay on the line.

When they do, just hold on, and once they dial the access number, they'll automatically be connected through to you.

Do make sure, you use this call back system to grab your free calls ,though, if you don't, you'll be charged Rebtel's usual rates.