Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Membership Fee, Amazon Prime Subscription: Amazon has introduced a mobile edition plan of Prime Video in India. Known as Prime Video Mobile Edition, the subscription fee for this mobile plan will be Rs 599 per year. This will be a single-user plan and customers can purchase this plan through the official website of Amazon Prime or its app for Android.

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"Prime Video mobile edition is a major step towards making premium entertainment across languages as ubiquitous as smartphones in the country," Amazon was quoted as saying by IANS.

With this move, Prime Video aims to expand the reach of the mobile edition, which debuted as a telco-partnered product in partnership with Bharti Airtel last year.

"With viewers from 99 per cent of the country`s pin codes, the service has become the preferred destination for premium content," said Gaurav Gandhi, vice president, Prime Video India.

The mobile edition offers standard definition (SD) quality streaming to users, and gives them a chance to explore and watch Prime Video`s vast catalogue of Indian and international movies, Amazon Originals, live cricket, and many more.

"India is turning into an innovation hub for Prime Video. With this launch, we look forward to entertaining every Indian with our popular on-demand entertainment content and live sports," added Kelly Day, Vice President, International, Prime Video.

It is to be noted that the e-commerce company unveiled the Prime Video Mobile Edition last year in partnership with Bharti Airtel. However, the plan was available only to customers using the network of Airtel. The cost of the plan is Rs 80 per month and allows users to stream videos in SD quality.

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Those who want to enjoy the content in High Definition (HD) will have to upgrade to the standard version of Amazon Prime which will Rs 1499 annually or 179 monthly.