Joins hands with Airtel for the first roll-out of Prime Video Mobile Edition, making high-quality entertainment accessible to hundreds of millions of Airtel customers
\nPrime Video Mobile Edition is a single-user mobile-only plan created especially for a mobile-first country like India.<\/p>\n
All Airtel customers on pre-paid bundled packs get a 30-day free trial of Prime Video Mobile Edition. Subsequently, customers can activate Mobile Edition through recharge bundles starting at an introductory offer of \u20b9 89<\/p>\n
MUMBAI, India, 13 January 2021. Accelerating its efforts to increase access to high-quality entertainment for every Indian, Amazon today introduced Prime Video Mobile Edition \u2013 a mobile-only plan at an amazing introductory price of \u20b989. India becomes the first Amazon Prime country in the world to offer customers a mobile-only Prime Video plan. Powered by affordable data, the ubiquitous smartphone has become the country\u2019s preferred screen for entertainment. Prime Video Mobile Edition is a single-user mobile-only plan, providing SD quality streaming to customers which are created especially for a mobile-first country like India. Prime Video is collaborating with Bharti Airtel (\u201cAirtel\u201d), India\u2019s premier communications solutions provider, for the first roll-out of Prime Video Mobile Edition.<\/p>\n
As part of the Prime Video Mobile Edition launch in India, all Airtel customers on bundled pre-paid packs can avail a 30-day free trial by simply signing up to Amazon from the Airtel Thanks app using their mobile number. After the 30 days free trial, Airtel customers can continue to enjoy Prime Video Mobile Edition through pre-paid recharges starting at an introductory offer of \u20b989, to get 28-days of Prime Video Mobile Edition along with 6GB data or choose a \u20b9299 pack of 28-day validity that includes Prime Video Mobile Edition along with unlimited calls, data access of 1.5 GB per day.<\/p>\n
Customers who want to get the complete Prime Video experience including multi-user access, streaming across devices including Smart TV, and the ability to enjoy content in HD\/UHD in addition to having access to all Prime benefits including ad-free music with Prime Music and free fast delivery on Amazon.in, Prime Reading and other Prime benefits, will have the option of recharging with a 30-day Amazon Prime membership at \u20b9131 or recharge with a \u20b9349 pack of 28-day validity that includes Amazon Prime membership along with unlimited calling, data access of 2 GB per day.<\/p>\n
The recharges will be available on the Airtel Thanks app or at over a million recharge points across the country. These offerings provide unlimited access to Prime Video\u2019s entire entertainment content library and empower the customer with even more choices and options to access Prime Video.<\/p>\n
Talking about the launch, Jay Marine, Vice President, Amazon Prime Video Worldwide, said<\/strong>: “India is one of our fastest-growing territories in the world with very high engagement rates. Buoyed by this response, we want to double-down by offering our much-loved entertainment content to an even larger base of Indian customers. Given high mobile broadband penetration in the country, the mobile phone has become one of the most widely used streaming devices. With the launch of Prime Video Mobile Edition, we look forward to entertaining every Indian with our Exclusive and Original content.\u201d<\/p>\n Gaurav Gandhi, Director, and Country General Manager, Amazon Prime Video India said<\/strong>: \u201cOver the last 4 years, Prime Video has become the country\u2019s most loved premium streaming service with viewership coming from over 4,300 towns and cities. We believe that the Mobile Edition plan will further accelerate Prime Video\u2019s adoption in India and allow an even larger number of customers to access our popular entertainment content. This initiative for Amazon is designed not just to give customers more choice (of plans) but also easy access to subscribe to Prime Video along with mobile data plans. We are happy to collaborate with Airtel as our first partner in India for Prime Video Mobile Edition.”<\/p>\n Shashwat Sharma, Chief Marketing Officer, Bharti Airtel said<\/strong>, \u201cAt Airtel, we are deeply passionate about delivering a differentiated experience to our customers through our Airtel Thanks program. We are happy to partner with Amazon to democratize quality digital entertainment in India by leveraging Airtel\u2019s core strengths of quality customers, deep distribution, and best-in-class network for video.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking on the collaboration with Airtel, Sameer Batra, Director, Mobile Business Development, Amazon<\/strong>, \u201cWe are delighted to have Airtel as our first roll-out partner for Prime Video Mobile Edition. This collaboration marks the deepening of the strategic association between Amazon and Airtel. Smartphones powered by pre-paid connections and affordable data are ubiquitous to a large base of Indian customers \u2013 Mobile Edition will make Prime Video synonymous with quality entertainment for this large customer group. We look forward to expanding the reach of our service to the entire pre-paid customer base in India.\u201d<\/p>\n Prime Video Mobile Edition will be available for Airtel pre-paid customers starting 2 PM today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joins hands with Airtel for the first roll-out of Prime Video Mobile Edition, making high-quality entertainment accessible to hundreds of millions of Airtel customers Prime Video Mobile Edition is a single-user mobile-only plan created especially for a mobile-first country like India. All Airtel customers on pre-paid bundled packs get a 30-day free trial of Prime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6198,17],"tags":[34868,34867,34865,34866,34869,34864,34863],"yst_prominent_words":[34858,34862,34860,14888,34859,11600,34853,29338,34850,34856,34857,20959,34848,34847,34855,34852,34861,34854,34851,34849],"read":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493562"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=493562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}