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Originally Posted by Richard Herley
'In an interview with The Bookseller, Brian McBride, managing director of Amazon in the UK, said it was not yet clear when the Kindle would launch in the country. He said it was likely to be some time next year, given the complexity of signing up the many partners needed to support Europe-wide Wi-Fi access.
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I'm 99.9% sure that the reporter has got it wrong here, and that they
don't really mean "WiFi" access. I notice that in the actual quote from Amazon they merely talk about "wireless technology", rather than "WiFi".
For Europe a system using GPRS would be far more practical, I suspect.