Verizon Communications said it is offering some new subscribers to its Fios fiber internet service 12 months of Hulu free.

The offer is in addition to the 12 months of Disney Plus already being offered to subscribers to both Fios and Verizon’s mobile phone service.

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Both Hulu and Disney Plus are from the Walt Disney Co.

Verizon said that subscribers who order a Fios 200 megabits per second connection get Disney Plus for 12 months. Subscribers who order a 400 Mbps connection get Hulu for six months and Disney Plus for 12 months.

New Fios Gigabit subscribers get 12 months of both Hulu and Disney Plus. They also get a free Stream TV from Verizon.

Verizon earlier this year on Fios program, which lets subscribers pick from different levels of internet and pay TV services.

Verizon Communications is flirting with 1-Gig consumer broadband service with the debut of Fios Gigabit Connection, a new optimized offering that delivers up to 940 Mbps down and 880 Mbps up starting at $69.99 a month.

The debut of the near-1-Gig offering from Fios follows the mid-January introduction of Fios Instant Internet, a symmetrical 750 Mbps service that was initially available to about 7 million homes and businesses.

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Verizon noted that the network performance of Instant Internet exceeded 750 Mbps, and has since “fine-tuned the service with new firmware and diagnostic tools” to ratchet up speeds further. . Existing customers on Fios Instant Internet service will automatically receive Fios Gigabit Connection and also see their bills lowered (Verizon initially sold that 750 Meg offering for $149.99 a month as a standalone, and $169.99 a month as part of a triple-play bundle).

The new offering starts at $69.99 a month as a standalone, or as part of a triple-play bundle that starts at $79.99 a month, when ordered online.

Verizon said Fios Gigabit Connection is available to more than 8 million homes in parts of the New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Richmond, Va., Hampton Roads, Va., Boston, Providence and Washington, D.C. areas.

Verizon is launching the faster tier as it sees competitors such as Comcast and RCN deploy DOCSIS 3.1-based services that deliver up to 1 Gbps in the downstream, but paired with much slower upstream speeds. The cable industry is pursuing a Full Duplex annex to D3.1 that will enable symmetrical multi-gigabit speeds.

 Verizon added 35,000 Fios Internet subs in Q1 2017, extending that total to 5.68 million. 

Verizon Fios sub growth slowed again on a year-over-year basis in Q1.

The telco, which recently closed the sale of wireline assets in California, Texas and Florida to Frontier Communications,  said it added 36,000 Fios video subs in Q1, down from 90,000 adds in the year-ago quarter, and added 98,000 Fios Internet customers, down from 133,000 adds.

Verizon ended the quarter with 5.86 million Fios video subs, and 7.13 million Fios Internet subs. That equated to a Fios video penetration of 35.2% (down slightly from 36% a year ago), and Fios Internet penetration of 41.9% (versus 41.5%) in the year-ago period.

With DSL factored in, Verizon also shed 10,000 total broadband connections in the quarter, versus a net gain of 41,000 a year ago. Verizon ended the quarter with 9.21 million total broadband connections.

Verizon said about 78% of Fios Internet subs took tiers of 50 Mbps or more, and that 38% of Fios video sales in Q1 were for its slimmed-down Custom TV offering, which was recently revised into two different types of packages, including one with ESPN.

Verizon also added 46,000 Fios residential digital voice connections in the period, down from 59,000 in the year-ago period. It ended the period with 4.8 million Fios voice connections.

Verizon, which has embarked on a plan to expanding Fios into the Boston area, pulled in $3.52 billion in Fios revenues in Q1, up from $3.35 billion in the year-ago period.

On the wireless end, Verizon added 640,000 retail postpaid subs, ending the period with 112.6 million retail connections, a 3.7% increase, and 107.2 million retail postpaid connections, a 4.4% rise. Wireless revenues were $22 billion in Q1, down 1.5% as more subs selected unsubsidized device payment plans.

On a consolidated basis, Verizon posted earnings of $1.06 per share in Q1 2016, up from $1.02 per share in Q1 2015. Total operating revenues in Q1 reached $32.2 billion, up 0.6% year-on-year.