Yeah they were using AT&T. Remember that at the time Kindle books were limited with respect to images so you’re talking a couple megabytes tops. The Lord of the Rings trilogy in its entirety, images and all, is 12MB. The primary use case was whisper sync which is just sending page numbers.
Plus this was on 3G while AT&T had moved mostly over to LTE, so you weren’t competing for bandwidth with most subscribers. I imagine Amazon got a pretty good deal, but more importantly it helped cement them as the default option for e-readers.
Yeah they were using AT&T. Remember that at the time Kindle books were limited with respect to images so you’re talking a couple megabytes tops. The Lord of the Rings trilogy in its entirety, images and all, is 12MB. The primary use case was whisper sync which is just sending page numbers.
Plus this was on 3G while AT&T had moved mostly over to LTE, so you weren’t competing for bandwidth with most subscribers. I imagine Amazon got a pretty good deal, but more importantly it helped cement them as the default option for e-readers.