Today’s announcement about Skype and WiFi seems to be one more supporting effort by companies that want to compete with the mobile/cellular carriers.
EuroTelcoblog‘s James Enck has some interesting views on Skype as always.
In many ways the skype Broadreach announcement is no different than Boingo going with TelSym, as both are non standard. I fully expect that T-Mobile, Cingular and others will opt for a SIP based platform, once they wake up to the fact that there are ways to still manage the customer relationship and make more money.