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Originally Posted by HarryT
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...
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I don't doubt the CDMA module could be replaced easily enough- but I really think one reason Amazon went CDMA rather than GSM was because CDMA can be tied to a single piece of hardware unlike GSM. If you have GSM you need a SIM, which is removable.
That could open Amazon's closed system in a way they wouldn't appreciate.