Amazon is reportedly trying to offer Prime subscribers free cell phone service

Amazon may be planning to supply Prime subscribers a fairly important perk: free cellphone service. According to 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 clients. 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’s going to 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 may very well be a probably fascinating supply for Amazon clients. In fact, that might require an extra dedication to Amazon, which already has its fingers in a frankly absurd variety of totally different companies. 

Thus far, there isn’t any particulars on what Amazon’s service would possibly appear to be — whether or not it will supply the identical stage of service as you’d get going straight by way of Verizon, T-Cell or AT&T. Particularly, carriers have a tendency to supply extra information at 5G speeds relying on what plan its customers select; there are additionally a ton of perks that carriers have a tendency to incorporate as of late like Netflix from T-Moble or Apple Music or Disney+ on Verizon. 

Nevertheless it’s not onerous to think about that plenty of clients would commerce a few of these perks and even much less high-speed information to get cell service without spending a dime. That is assuming they’re OK tying one more a part of their digital lives to Amazon — however when you’re already hooked on Prime, this might make for a compelling new a part of Amazon’s subscription plan.