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Not much of a problem, just that a global sim with access to unlimited data in those countries must've cost a fortune for Amazon to maintain once those flat-rat
by judge2020 5y ago
Not much of a problem, just that a global sim with access to unlimited data in those countries must've cost a fortune for Amazon to maintain once those flat-rate providers realized some "Kindles" were using a lot of unexpected data and asked for more money or a data cap.
- rudian 5y agoIt's not abuse if the use is within the terms of use. At most you can just call it a bad deal for Amazon or simply an "advertisement cost" of the phrase "Global access." If anything it's to be applauded that "global" really meant global, not just "yeah global as long as you're in USA, CA, UK, EU, AU, NZ." So many times my "global" MasterCard did not work in some whole country.
- mike_d 5y ago> a global sim with access to unlimited data in those countries must've cost a fortune Nearly every country in the world has at least one mobile network that has a roaming agreement with Deutsche Telekom. They have negotiated rates at high volumes in the cents/GB regardless of local pricing shenanigans. DT is often the local cell providers gateway for international calling, so they have quite a bit of leverage.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoPoor Amazon. If only kweks hadn't abused the system, Bezos would have had a few hundred billion more by now.