The most exclusive advertisement I could get? March 28, 2005
Posted by Martin in : Thailand , trackbackWow, having just returned from holiday I find all these new customers have joined up with my telecom company. They are all quoting their source as the Wall Street Journal. I certainly don’t remember advertising there.
It turns out that my United World Telecom website was given an honororable mention there 
Cutting Phone Costs on the Road
March 24, 2005; Page D1
Q: How can I cut the cost of phoning the U.S. while traveling abroad?
–Diane Cummins, Washington
A: You can rent a cellphone using the global standard GSM from Web sites such as Roberts-Rent-A-Phone.com1 and Roadpost.com2, but the fees can be steep and calls can cost more than $2 a minute.
If you don’t need a phone at all times, try prepaid phone cards or callback services. With Absolute Global (from ZapTel.com3) or MCI World Traveler (at SpeedyPin.com4) cards, you call toll-free numbers and then dial a PIN and your number. Per-minute prices to the U.S. range from about $2.50 from Vietnam to a dime from the Netherlands; local charges may apply. With callback services such as United World Telecom (UWT4me.com5), you call a number, usually in the U.S., which calls you back. Then you dial the number you’d like to call. A call from Vietnam with United World can cost 51 cents a minute.
–Ian Mount
What does this all mean?
Well aside from some more customers, which is always nice I guess I can now market myself as saying “I have had my business given favourable press in the Wall Stret Journal”. United World Telecom is actually the big developed company I work as an agent for. Amusingly the WSJ editor has assumed that my website United World Telecom 4 Me was the major site though.
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