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Amazon Echo range and Music Unlimited service coming to Australia and New Zealand
June 25, 2025
Amazon has announcedthat its Music Unlimited service and Alexa-powered speakers —Echo, Echo Plus, andEcho Dot— will be available in Australia and New Zealand next month.
Users will be able to choose between three plans. The Echo Plan is the cheapest one, offering access to the service via a single Echo, Echo Dot or Echo Plus speaker for AUD $4.99. Next up is the Individual Plan at AUD $11.99 per month that also lets you access the music service from a mobile device or PC. The last option is the Family Plan, allowing up to six members of a household to share a subscription for AUD $17.99 per month.
Starting today, Australians can pre-order the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, or Echo Plus on Amazon’s website. The first onecosts $119, the Dotgoes for $49, while the Plus model can beyours for $199. All three will officially be released on February 1. Consumers in Australia and New Zealand will also be able to pick up Echo devices at select major retailers, although there’s no word on which ones exactly at this point.
In case you’re not familiar, the Echo speakers are powered by Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant and can be controlled with voice commands. You can ask the device what the weather is like, manage calendar events, and tell it to play songs from the Unlimited Music service, among loads of other things.
Will you be picking one up? Let us know in the comments.
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