[Editor: Skype Journal friend and blogger, Jan Geirnaert, went to the International Telecommunications Union Fair in December 2006. We'd planned to run his coverage but it conflicted with some of our down time. So here is Jan's first installment.]

Some quick notes. I have been running around here on the ITU fair in Hong Kong. Interesting event. It is a pity I could not “clone” myself in order to visit the

3G Congress at the same time or even attend simultaneously the same speeches, keynotes and slideshows. After all, these are all quite standard. Maybe the telecom guys will in the future (or they already have) invent something to give me live viewable access to these events. Or do they, because actually it would be enough to link just one good existing camera system (call it live press or video-feed) and link it up to Skype.

But I have some gut feeling that that is not what telecom guys want to do. Anyway, it is good to be there in Hong Kong at the ITU event, following what is going on in the industry.

I did not see any booth of Skype, which is not a surprise to me. I did see in a small corner a company showing a Skype / DECT dualphone. What I did see is the guys from FON.COM being represented here on this fair.