Amazon is reportedly attempting to supply Prime subscribers free cellular phone service

Amazon could be planning to supply Prime subscribers a fairly vital perk: free cellular phone service. In keeping with Bloomberg, the corporate is speaking with a number of US-based carriers about providing low cost — round $10 a month — and even free telephone service to Prime prospects. Proper now, Amazon is supposedly negotiating with the three main US carriers (Verizon, AT&T and T-Cell) in addition to the Dish Community, although it appears like talks with AT&T have fallen off in current weeks.

It will possible be some time earlier than this potential providing launched, as Bloomberg says that talks have solely been ongoing for about six to eight weeks and so they might nonetheless be scrapped. However given how costly cell plans can get, this might be a doubtlessly fascinating supply for Amazon prospects. After all, that may require an extra dedication to Amazon, which already has its fingers in a frankly absurd variety of totally different companies.

Up to now, there is no particulars on what Amazon’s service would possibly seem like — whether or not it will supply the identical degree of service as you’d get going immediately via Verizon, T-Cell or AT&T. Particularly, carriers have a tendency to supply extra knowledge at 5G speeds relying on what plan its customers select; there are additionally a ton of perks that carriers have a tendency to incorporate lately like Netflix from T-Moble or Apple Music or Disney+ on Verizon.

But it surely’s not laborious to think about that loads of prospects would commerce a few of these perks and even much less high-speed knowledge to get cell service without cost. That is assuming they’re OK tying yet one more a part of their digital lives to Amazon — however should you’re already hooked on Prime, this might make for a compelling new a part of Amazon’s subscription plan.

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