• All new, existing and upgrading Vodacom customers are now eligible to subscribe to Prime Video or Prime Video Mobile Edition.
• Those signing up for Prime Video Mobile Edition will gain access to a 30-day free trial.
• Thereafter the subscription streaming service will cost R59 per month.

Vodacom has made an announcement this week for any of its customers interested in streaming services, as the mobile operator is the first in South Africa to make Amazon’s Prime Video Mobile Edition available locally.

From today onwards, Vodacom confirms that all new, existing and upgrading customers are now eligible to subscribe to Prime Video or Prime Video Mobile Edition, regardless of price plan they are on, whether it is prepaid or post-paid.

“With Prime Video Mobile Edition, customers benefit from Prime Video’s full catalogue of thousands of movies and TV series and Amazon Originals on a single mobile device. The Prime Video app allows for streaming and downloading of content in standard definition,” Vodacom noted in a press release sent to Hypertext.

To mark the launch Vodacom customers signing up for the Mobile Edition will gain access to a 30-day free trial and 10GB of video data valid for 30 days as well. Thereafter, access to the this service will cost R59 per month along with 3GB of video data allocated per month.

For those wanting the fully fledged version of the streaming service, Vodacom customers can sign up for Prime Video and get three months free access courtesy of the operator. Once the trial ends, it will cost R79 per month.

“Research has shown that OTT streaming in the sub-Saharan Africa region continues to grow rapidly, with around 30% more subscribers between 2020 and 2021. With that said, we strive to forge partnerships with the best streaming services to ensure customers enjoy a variety of subscription packages,” highlighted Jorge Mendes, chief officer of Consumer Business at Vodacom South Africa.

“As we continue transitioning to a Pan-African technology company, with the ambition of offering much more than telco products, this partnership fits perfectly with our overall goal of  enabling our consumers access to  video streaming content,” he added.

You can check out the Mobile Edition here.