Skype in “The Cloud”
The combination of The Cloud (www.thecloud.net) and Skype (www.skype.net) is set to deliver the first mobile roaming Skype service in Europe. The Wi-Fi phones come from SMC and right now they can be employed in over 8,500 public hotspots.
The Cloud offers coverage at various locations that include airports, hotels and railway stations across the UK, Germany, the Nordics and The Netherlands. This service provider also operates large-scale networks across the City of London, Canary Wharf, Amsterdam and nine other UK cities.
After registering their phone for Skype via the Internet, customers can use the mobile phone to automatically connect to Skype when they are within range of one of the operator's 8,500 hotspots. The service will initially launch in the UK this month, with the Nordics and Germany to follow towards the end of the year. The service is due to commence in France, Spain, Italy and Benelux at the start of 2007. The first shipments of the phone are in English, with French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish language version units coming in Q4, 2006.
Source: VON Mag
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