Winchester

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International Kindle users: here's how Amazon is screwing you (Download Squad)

Aug 30th 2010 12:11PM @ Adalan - you missed my point. The chain of data transmission is such:

Company Server (Amazon) -> Point of Transmission (in) -> ISP (US) -> Internet Trunk/Backbone -> ISP (other country) -> Point of Transmission (out) -> User (you).

In this case Wifi & 3G are 2 different types of PoT (out); ie. the method the user (you) gets the data from (whatever) ISP.

My point is that ISPs get charged international business tax at the Trunk/Backbone level when routing data to other countries. AT&T is probably charging Amazon a fee to send data over international lines and Amazon is passing the cost on to the consumer. Ergo, complaining to Amazon is useless since they are not the ones originating the fees.

International Kindle users: here's how Amazon is screwing you (Download Squad)

Aug 30th 2010 11:27AM While i agree the difference in pricing is stupid, i think you are barking up the wrong tree.

It is probably some exclusivity deal between Amazon and AT&T (and other local carriers) that has to do with transmission of data from the Amazon servers to an internet trunk across international lines in the form of business taxes.

My point is you should be complaining to AT&T if you want to affect change in the system. I'm basing this by reading in between the lines of the stock answers Amazon gave you.