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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't see why they decide to stop offering it. The typical price for "pay as you go" internet via 3G here in the UK is somewhere around £10 for 1GB of data transfer. The average eBook is about 300kb in size, which means that even if I was personally paying to send the book to the Kindle, it would cost around 0.3p (about half a US cent) to do so. That's an insignificant amount when compared to the price of a book, and I'm sure that Amazon negotiates enormously cheaper data rates than I can get.
I strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of Kindle 3G owners never use the 3G for anything other than buying books.
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Just to add, it is part of Amazon's ebook service, the ability for someone to own a Kindle and never need a computer to access the bookstore and their paid titles. IIRC the 3.0.1 update allows you to create an Amazon account from the Kindle.
I myself didn't go the 3G path (as many others did - only opted for the wifi-only) as I don't really go anywhere for prolong periods of time, and with wifi at home I could not see any benefit to myself to get the 3G. I figure if I do go away and really need to get the Kindle online I can pull into a local McDonalds and hook on their free wifi and download what I need to that way (yes wifi at maccas is free in Aus, 50mb limit, no time limit).