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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by Dylan16807 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @02:06PM (#27999521)
I don't think a Kindle would need broadband, though there probably weren't all that many dial-up connections plugged into wifi routers.
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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by ghaff on Thursday July 29, 2021 @02:27PM (#27999773)
Right. You don't need the bandwidth. But while it's presumably possible, also presumably almost no home users had WiFi before they got broadband.
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Re:Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular networ... by tomjen3 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:04PM (#28000783)
We didn't but we did have a LAN. That was probably a special case though.
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