View Full Term. By clicking sign up, you agree to receive emails from Techopedia and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Amazon Whispernet is a 3G wireless plan bundled with Amazon Kindle. If enabled on the Kindle device, Amazon Whispernet allows Kindle users to connect to Amazon's website to purchase books, download content, etc. In addition to Whispernet, Amazon also provides Whispersync and Whispercast. The former is a bookmarking solution that allows books and other contents to be synced between different devices automatically.
Whispercast is similar to Whispersync but is intended for corporate users. Employees can also take advantage of Whispersync features, ensuring all employees in a working group are on the same page, both figuratively and literally.
Whispernet and Whispercast are both free to use. Originally, the Whispernet service had no limitations on the amount of data downloaded, but some users learned that they could hack their Kindles to turn them into wireless hotspots for other devices. Whispernet offers users 50MB of data per month, but once you hit that limit, Amazon blocks all content other than the Amazon store and Wikipedia over the 3G connection. Milton Kazmeyer has worked in the insurance, financial and manufacturing fields and also served as a federal contractor.
Why is Whispernet branding being retired news? It all comes down to every single Kindle model with 3G internet access will no longer be able to connect to a 3G tower in the US in and most of the world from to Amazon is quietly adjusting their brand message to not make reference to 3G anymore and are scrubbing away anything to do with the immediate shutdown.
Whispernet is not the only thing that has been discontinued. A couple of months ago, Amazon had a global coverage map , that listed all of their international carrier partners for Whispernet enabled 3G Kindles. For some time it appeared Amazon did not enforce this limit, but several users reported it was doing so in the summer of This may be because some users have discovered and shared how to modify the Kindle to share the 3G connection with other devices, such as tablets and laptops.
A professional writer since with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism, John Lister ran the press department for the Plain English Campaign until He then worked as a freelance writer with credits including national newspapers, magazines and online work. He specializes in technology and communications.
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