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Originally Posted by HarryT
My understanding is that all Amazon has ever said they would keep "free" is downloading of books bought at the Kindle store, and certain specific services, like Wiki searches. Everything else has always been "up for review".
3G traffic costs real money, and they someone has to pay for it. It's a little unreasonable to expect a Kindle to be an "unlimited traffic" internet connection for free  . |
And -- with the recent ability for Kindle users to get content from somewhere other than Amazon and deliver it through the Whispernet (Calibre and Feedbooks for sure and maybe others) the use of Whispernet is increasing for other than browsing Amazon's store and purchasing books from Amazon and the occasional search of Wikipedia.
Personally, I like a pricing scheme that asks the heavy users of a function to pay for it. I rarely turn on the antenna on my Kindle -- and that's usually when I have several "samples" queued to download. So, I should never see a bill for use of the Whispernet. But others who are taking advantage of the easy delivery of non-Amazon content will pay for it. I choose to spend my TIME downloading and transferring content through my PC instead of MONEY to do the same through the Whispernet.