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Originally Posted by 713Alan
Whispernet is through Sprint's cell phone service so it only works where Sprint phones work. Sprint phones work in Canada so that part is an Amazon licensing issue.
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I think you're a little off the mark here. Yes, technologically the Sprint radio in the Kindle will work in Canada, but I don't think it's a licensing issue so much a roaming issue. International data roaming fees are extremely expensive - it's probably not a licensing issues so much as a data roaming issue.
That's not to say that Amazon couldn't ink a deal with Telus or Bell so that Amazon couldn't offer a Canadian version of the Kindle... They just would have to be willing to allow a device with unlimited data access to their network... Even one with such limited capability as a Kindle.