Ecuity, Boingo Wireless and TeleSym Team to offer a VoIP over Wi-Fi service

I have to laugh about this. More than two years ago a former colleague of mine who was previously at Metricom, the company which brought you Ricochet, and I along with a few others went to Boingo with this exact idea, working with Webley Systems, whose CTO had already developed a softphone using Windows Messenger on the SIP platform and which we had successfully tested at Starbucks locations as well as other WiFi locations.

While I like the idea alot, I have to wonder why TelSym which is not SIP based, but uses its own protocol. In thinking that through, the connection is Intel, as Intel Capital has an investment with TelSym.

I applaud Boingo for making this first step. My hope is that they remain open platform and let any SoftPhone ride on their network…my guess is they will.