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Originally Posted by gwynevans
I'm not sure it's quite "doesn't want to", but more that the hardware costs of switching from what they currently have (EVDO - which is basically USA-only) to some form of HSDPA (rest of the world) is also going to be a major factor.
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I very much doubt that the hardware costs are the issue; the CDMA comms module could probably be replaced with a GSM one at minimal cost. The difficult part, as has been discussed
ad nausiam elsewhere on this board, is the difficulty of negotiating data transfer deals with all the different telecoms operators. Eg, there are currently 51 separate countries in Europe - for a "Europe wide" launch of the Kindle, Amazon would need to negotiate data agreements with different telecoms operators in each of those 51 different countries, each of which has its own legal system. I'm sure that you see the difficulty...