Thread: Amazon Kindle not coming to Germany any time soon, says report
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Old 06-28-2009, 05:59 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by netseeker View Post
The downloads cause traffic on the Telecoms systems? It doesn't matter whether the browser is slow or not. Apart from this our Telecoms act very different than in the US...they are oligoplists and don't care about every customer if they don't get paid "well" as it seems to be the case with Amazon.
Actually, I wouldn't bet on Germany's telecom/ISP sector being substantially worse than the US's.. From what I hear they're pretty extortionist over there as well. (The idiotic "pay to receive" SMS surcharge comes to mind here as a first example; see 1, 2, 3)
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