Unusual callback feature in Toronto

I just discovered an ad for a cool callback server with a twist I haven’t seen before. I’ve used three styles of callback servers so far. One I’d have to send a SMS containing the number I wanted to connect to, the other I’d have to dial the number when I was called back. Then there’s Jajah. MobileMiser makes things easier still.

With MobileMiser you can set up what they call callback direct. You associate your destination with one of three phone numbers. When you dial this number you get a busy signal like any callback, and then MobileMiser will connect you to your associated destination without any extra dialing. Very cool. This is great for people whose phones don’t have a calling card feature or don’t let you use your contact list in the middle of a call.

Because it’s a callback it is a little more expensive than a dialthrough. I’ll give an example using Toronto prices. Renting a DID (essentially a number for people to dial) generally costs under ten dollars per month plus $0.011 per minute incoming. Outgoing is about $0.02 per minute in Canada/US. Of course volume discounts apply, and I do see some emerging DIDs that have unlimited minutes, but in general the trend I see is outgoing calls cost more than incoming calls to Toronto. A callback that has to make two outgoing calls is going to cost more than a callthrough that has one incoming call and one outgoing call.

So, is the convenience of having this associated number worth paying MobileMiser‘s 4.9c per minute over xpresscall‘s 3.33c per minute? Not to me, but still, very cool feature.