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I find this all a bit interesting from a few points of view.
I found the browser on my Kindle to be so limited that even with the 3G I didn't feel it worked well except for Wikipedia, and in that case even I changed the settings so it would use the mobile wikipedia page.
That being said, I wonder how much data was really being passed through the 3G. A typical smart-phone data plan by ATT and Verizon seems to be limited to 2GB of data per month, but most people who get near that number on their smartphones are getting there because of video and audio content that Kindle just couldn't pass.
Do people think that the browser was generating that much traffic? especially if you average it per user? I'm sure there are some who use it a lot, but then there are many who keep the wireless turned off and rarely use it at all. It surely can't be using up the amount of data that carriers normally charge $30/2gb for.
It just seems that when it comes down to it, the 3G couldn't possibly cost that much for Amazon. But, I suppose if that were the case, they wouldn't be doing this anyway. I'm sure there are other items underneath that I don't or can't understand with regards to Amazon's 3G contracts, but given the $50 price tag to own the 3G option, I think only the biggest users are really getting that value out of their device.
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