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Skype opens 100 free Wi-Fi hotspots… in Stockholm
Scandinavians get all the good luck. Not only are they beautiful, the happiest people on Earth and reasonably wealthy, now Skype's decided to roll out free Wi-Fi hotspots for them.
Skype was founded by a dane and a swede (the very same duo who also founded the old pirates' favourite KaZaA) so its perhaps no suprise that Stockholm is the first to get 100 free Wi-Fi hotspots across various cafes and restaurants.
The Nordic director of Skype, Jonas Kjellberg, told Swedish mag Ny Teknik if there was enough interest in the scheme, Skype, together with Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, might roll more free hotspots.
Skype won't guarantee any minimum speeds, but initial tests by journalists in the country found speeds averaging 1.5Mbits/sec.
We were unable to get a comment from Skype UK about the scheme. And yes, I have a serious dose of Scandinavian in me.
'They' talked bad about Kazaa thought it would just go away but it did not it was new way of doing things and so is Skype. Now Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have revolutionalised the way people communicate the 100 free Wi-Fi hotspots in Sweden are a very good idea and cant wait till they come to the UK we are already limited to public areas where we can use our Wi-fi Phones.
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