{"id":1170,"date":"2009-05-05T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2009-05-05T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T19:19:36","slug":"will-the-amazon-kindle-dx-abandom-sprints-whispernet-for-pure-wifi-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/will-the-amazon-kindle-dx-abandom-sprints-whispernet-for-pure-wifi-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Amazon Kindle DX Abandon Sprint&#8217;s WhisperNet for Pure WiFi Connectivity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/s_t_vz_090505.png\" alt=\"s_t_vz_090505\" title=\"s_t_vz_090505\" width=\"420\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/s_t_vz_090505.png 420w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/s_t_vz_090505-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Chart courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/echarts?s=S#chart9:symbol=s;range=2y;compare=t+vz;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined\">Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Larry Dignan&#8217;s ZDNet item&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=17466\">The big Kindle: Pondering Wi-Fi; Netbooks; Market implications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;got me wondering about two things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Will Amazon abandon the Sprint 3G wireless network powered WhisperNet for the Kindle DX and, perhaps, the successor to the Kindle 2 (assuming the Kindle 2 and DX are separate models for different market segments)? None of the big U.S. telecom providers have been doing well. But, as you can see in the dramatic two-year stock chart above comparing Sprint (S), AT&#038;T (T), and Verizon (VZ), Sprint has appeared to have fared far worse than AT&#038;T or Verzion in the past two years based on their stock share price performance. Could Amazon be preparing for a Sprint meltdown by moving away from WhisperNet to pure WiFi access?<\/p>\n<p>2. I&#8217;ve always assumed (but have not verified) that part of the Kindle 2&#8217;s and ebooks&#8217; relatively high costs were due to a percentage payout to Sprint for the &#8220;lifetime&#8221; wireless 3G data access. Would dropping Sprint 3G data service allow Amazon to keep the Kindle DX price down? And, if a 3G-less Kindle 3 emerges, could it be priced closer to the magic $200 price-point?<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll know more after Amazon&#8217;s press event tommorow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chart courtesy of Yahoo Finance Larry Dignan&#8217;s ZDNet item&#8230; The big Kindle: Pondering Wi-Fi; Netbooks; Market implications &#8230;got me wondering about two things&#8230; 1. Will Amazon abandon the Sprint 3G wireless network powered WhisperNet for the Kindle DX and, perhaps, the successor to the Kindle 2 (assuming the Kindle 2 and DX are separate models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-mobile-devices","tag-kindle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-iS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}