Everybody's Giving Away Free Netflix

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is already one of the best bargains in entertainment, but if you don't feel like paying for it, you're in luck: Companies are lining up to give it away.

In September T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) launched its "Netflix on Us" program, which offers a standard Netflix subscription to "T-Mobile One" family-plan subscribers. If you already have both T-Mobile One and Netflix, you simply have to merge your accounts to take advantage of the offer. From T-Mobile's description of the agreement, it sounds like it will be paying close to full price for Netflix.

But the bigger giveaway news may be that Optimum, the nation's fifth-largest cable provider (now owned by Altice USA, Inc. (NYSE: ATUS)), is making its own Netflix play to get new customers. Optimum says that for new Triple Play (phone, cable, and internet) subscribers, it will pay for a year of Netflix, a value of $120; this follows a similar decision earlier this year in France, where it's the second-largest telecom and cable operator.

Source: Fool.com