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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
By the way, I don't think US wireless costs have much to do with "open" vs "closed." The US is significantly larger than the EU, with many regions of lower population density, and there is a lot of competition between providers.
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These arguments have beaten to death on many forums and I don't think they are true. See, population density of Latvia is almost the same as of the US. In fact, East and West coast of the US is much more populated with sparse areas in between. But unlike Latvia you often don't have any signal in the woods anyway. I don't have any statistics but I guess that there are actually more people covered by a single cell tower in the US than in Latvia.
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Uh, yeah. I'd much rather make Amazon and the magazine publishers eat the costs, than pay for it myself and save money on a service I almost never use.
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I want fair paying. If you want to avoid dealing with network operators, let Amazon to add the costs to your purchase price (10p per MB or whatever) as it is now. But for others there should be an option to insert their own SIM card without hassle and use much more data without paying Amazon. Actually there is an option in your Kindle preferences on Amazon page where you set the limit for wireless delivery charges to 0. So, I think that it would be quite easy for Amazon to implement use of personal SIM cards. It is just that they want to retain control and that's all.