1) Can I get online with a PS3 wireless connection? I live in the UK, so we still have online over here.

2) Is the online mode going to be scrapped over here completely in the near future? If so, I don't want to buy it.

[1.] Yes you can.

[2.] Do it anyway you've got another 6 months about...Besides the launch of Metal Gear Solid 4 is a Simultaneous Q1 release (that's what's expected anyway) so by the Time Metal Gear Online UK ends, MGS4 will be out, with MGO2.

Metal Gear online is to good to pass up like that, unless of course your in such a financial Jam....