According to Reuters (via eurovoip), Skype users get free wifi access from Broadreach to make Skype calls. It seems normally Broadreach charges 3 pounds per hour. I wonder whether there is an arbitrage opportunity here if one can tunnel an IP connection through a Skype connection. Consider a potential wifi user sets up a “fake” Skype session to a proxy which can access Internet. This is possible if they allow a text chat session as well.
Posted by aswath at March 4, 2005 12:28 AM