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Amazon's definition of "global wireless" apparently doesn't include Finland. The whole country is a conspicuous patch of white on the coverage map.

This seems weird – Finland has a densely built 3G network and Amazon has coverage over practically all of Europe. The only explanation I can think of is that they couldn't make a deal with the local operators.

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I believe Amazon use AT&T's roaming relationships rather than having to do deals with operators in each country, so the device is always using roaming data when it's not in the USA, thus the reason they turn off some of the features that use more bandwidth for international users.

Okay, that would explain it. Turns out that AT&T has no data roaming in Finland, at least according to this list: http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/dataconnect-...

It's AT&T who doesn't have a deal with Finnish operators and not Amazon, then. I still have to wonder why, though.

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