Amazon is understood to have outsourced all aspects of manufacturing for the Kindle ebook reader in the UK to Qualcomm, including securing ‘connectivity’ with a mobile operator in the UK. Amazon has been frantically working on having the Kindle reader ready for launch before Christmas 2009

Amazon is reportedly close to setting a release date for the kindle in the UK, with “ innovative negotiations” underway with a carrier for providing the wireless connection thru which the device downloads ebooks.

According to Mobile Today,  Amazon have called upon Qualcomm to manage not only the producing of the gsm kindle, but to “ securing connectivity” for the UK device.

Unlike the US kindle, which solely uses Sprint’ s data network for its mobile connectivity, the UK version is tipped to include wireless support also as 3g.  The identity of the carrier involved is unknown,  but likely candidates include T-mobile and O2,  both of whom have well-established wifi networks which their own subscribers have admission to.

Amazon is believed to be working to arrange the establishing of the UK kindle before Christmas 2009,  and to have prior to the specified or implied time secured agreements with publishers of books and be mid-negotiation with those of magazines and newspapers.  The company’ s carrier talks in Germany reportedly broke down in June,  after they were unable to reach consensus on a fair price,  while a similar break-down is suggested to have taken place in the UKaround six months ago.

Cross your fingers... the Kindle might be a nice gift for Christmas in the UK

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