[wwn_se]

Well that's illegal in almost all (western) countries. A device need to have an declaration of all radio equipment inside in some form (depending on locale).

It also would be a lot harder to profit from ads when you have to pay for lte bandwidth especially with the prices in the US.

[zinekeller]

(not op)

> Well that's illegal in almost all (western) countries. A device need to have an declaration of all radio equipment inside in some form (depending on locale).

I agree, but I'm pretty sure that it will be buried on the declarations page.

> It also would be a lot harder to profit from ads when you have to pay for lte bandwidth especially with the prices in the US.

You vastly overestimated the costs of wholesale network access, which is surprisingly cheap, that's why Kindles (for the most part) do have Amazon-provided SIM cards. Bad news is that you can't get it: basically you need commit to a minimum bandwidth (in hundreds of terabytes range) with a minimum subscription count (in hundreds of thousands range) to get these cheap prices, which would be more expensive than individual plans.

[GoblinSlayer]

Can you extract that SIM card and use for free internet?

[zinekeller]

Depends? Amazon's SIMs are locked to the specific Kindles, so you need to clone at least the radio identification codes (like IMEI) that is used, and you need to relay that to a specific proxy operated by Amazon because the network-in-question would block (on behalf of Amazon) other servers.

I imagine that in case someone has implemented this, it would be locked in a similar way to ensure that it can only access those ad servers and nothing else.