Amazon Dumps Sprint for Kindle 2, Embraces AT&T

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No reason given for why they did this. Is AT&T for better international roaming? Or did they just give Amazon a better deal?

AT&T would be better for international roaming just due to the whole CDMA vs GSM thing.

The obvious guess would be money. Maybe AT&T offered a better deal. Even without a better deal, manufacturing costs most be cheaper with only one GSM version doing twice the volume versus two different versions.

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