/PRZOOM - Newswire/ - Skype Zones client is available for Windows and can be downloaded from the Skype store or the Boingo website. Skype users will be able to add around 18,000+ Boingo Hot Spots “Skype Zones via Boingo®” service.

Santa Monica, CA, United States, 07/12/2005 – Through its roaming system and software technology, Boingo® powers the wireless offerings of major carriers and ISPs, enabling their customers to connect in thousands of hot spots and to carrier 3G wireless systems, all from a single, powerful, carrier-branded software interface. Boingo can augment a carrier's existing Wi-Fi efforts or provide a complete, private-label, turnkey solution.

The combined Skype Zones service is available immediately. It is a beta service during which Skype will solicit feedback from users to ensure optimum service delivery and feature enhancements. The Skype Zones client is available for Windows computers and can be downloaded from the Skype store or the Boingo website (boingo.com). Monthly access to Skype Zones is $7.95 per month for unlimited Skype access or $2.95 for a 2-hour connection.

Source: Skype.com

Skype maintains its commitment to user-controlled privacy settings with the ability to block SkypeIn numbers. SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail betas are available with the latest versions of Skype for Linux, Mac OS X, Pocket PC and Windows platforms. The new downloads also include enhanced user benefits such as remote access to their personal contact lists and the ability to import contact lists from other desktop applications.

About Boingo®

Boingo® provides software technology and roaming services that help bring the wireless Internet to the masses. The company has assembled a large and rapidly growing roaming system with over 18,000 Hot Spot locations under contract around the world. Boingo also invented the world's most powerful software for discovering and connecting to hot spots and 3G wireless networks.

About Skype™

Skype™ is the leading VOIP-category product worldwide, with more than 35 million registered users increasing by more than 150,000 new users per day.

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