GLOBALTEL INTERNATIONAL CALLBACK SERVICE

GlobalTel is a division of GLOBALTEL/THAILAND a telecommunications services company, based in Phuket , THAILAND. GlobalTel has over 50 representatives in more than 45 countries and serves customers in more than 110 countries.

Today, international calling rates are artificially high throughout most of the world, as many countries forbid competition for telephone service and impose high tariffs on incoming calls. GlobalTel capitalizes on the market created by these artificially high rates, by exporting a US dialtone, with low US rates, to virtually every country.

GlobalTel operates under the approval of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with a Section 214 license. The World Trade Organization Classifies "callback" as a "long distance telecommunications service."

GlobalTel's "International Callback" is used by ambassadors, consulate and embassy employees, trade promotion and other international organization officials, corporate executives, professional firms, export-import companies and others engaged in international business and travel. Letters of reference are available. We are particularly proud to serve some offices and employees of the World Bank and the United Nations.

Telecommunications is one of the largest industries in the world. It is estimated that world telecom revenues were $800 billion in 1996 and will grow 50 percent, to $1.2 trillion by the year 2000. U.S. companies control about 30 percent of the world trade in telephone services and almost all of the Callback industry’s portion of that.

"International Callback", was approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in 1995, after opposition from several of the world's major carriers. GlobalTel uses high tech computer telephony switching to export US dial tones to every country. GlobalTel customers in over 100 countries make international calls to every country.

On February 15, 1997 69 countries that represent more than 90% of the world telecommunications revenue entered into a landmark World Trade Organization (WTO) accord. The WTO accord seeks to open telecommunications markets around the globe. The US became the first country to implement the agreement, when the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), on November 25, 1997, agreed to make it easier for overseas telephone carriers and satellite operators to compete in the US. The FCC commissioner described the significance of the WTO Accord as "staggering". Consumers will see the benefits of competition through lower international calling rates and increased innovation. US domestic telecommunications companies will have enormous business opportunities as barriers to foreign markets are dismantled. The accord, which took effect on January 1, 1998, basically ends a 60-year tradition of telecommunications monopolies and closed markets.

In some countries, Callback, as well as other competing telecommunications services, is still either illegal or discouraged, but it is widely used in literally every country in the world by government and military offices, officials and personnel. Opposition to competition, by either governments or monopolistic telephone companies, is contrary to the spirit and rules of the WTO accord of February 15, 1997. Monopolies and democracy do not go together and the global trend today is toward freedom and democracy and the abolishment of monopolies and other barriers to trade, travel and communications. See the WTO home pages on the Internet at: http://www.wto.org.

The sale and use of International Callback does not violate any US laws and does not violate any International Laws or Treaties. See FCC Home Pages at http://www.FCC.gov/IB/.

Low telephone rates are increasingly important in today’s growing global economy. Low rates help strengthen the ties of family and friends, promote communication, unity and peace and make it easier to promote exports and improve trade balances between nations. GlobalTel is one of the links in the process to achieve these goals.