Talk About Municipal Wi-Fi! Singapore Gets Unwired

Talk about a wireless global village. By May 2007, Northern Singapore will have 2400 wireless hotspots set up. Citizens will have free Internet access. For a monthly fee, they will also have unlimited VoIP calls and TV over broadband (IPTV), amongst other services. The free services are will be available for 2-3 years, depending on which of three providers a customer is subscribed to. The whole project is part of a national wireless project in Singapore.

Now, if some of the other small countries that are banning VoIP - presumably because of government interests in the incumbent/ traditional telecom - had some sense, they would follow a similar lead. Instead of making VoIP an enemy and banning what is only going to come win out eventually, they should embrace IP telephony and make it work for them.