Google Fi's throwing in a free year of YouTube Premium for Unlimited Plus subscribers - The Verge

If you’re subscribed to Google Fi’s Unlimited Plus plan, you tin present bask an other perk successful summation to unlimited data: 1 twelvemonth escaped of YouTube Premium.

Starting today, caller and existing members enrolled successful Google Fi’s premium program won’t person to wage the $119.99 yearly interest for 1 twelvemonth of the increasingly fashionable service, Patrick Seybold, Google’s planetary PR pb for Stadia, AR and Project Starline, told The Verge in an email.

Even better? You won’t person to stock the work with others if you opt for the household program either, arsenic each idiosyncratic volition get their ain YouTube Premium subscription.

“Wireless consumers are progressively opting for unlimited plans to substance increasing appetites for media, games, and different high-bandwidth applications on-the-go,” Seybold claims successful the email. “Now, we’re offering a simple, azygous subscription to Fi that provides connectivity, unreality retention and amusement for the full family.”

Of course, determination is simply a flimsy “catch,” if you privation to telephone it that: Google Fi’s Unlimited Plus program is its astir expensive, ranging from $65 / period for 1 idiosyncratic oregon $40 / period for families of up to 4 to six people. Yet a escaped twelvemonth of YouTube Premium, which comes bundled with entree to YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Kids, offline downloads and listening, and more, could perchance equilibrium things out.

It’s conscionable 1 of galore caller perks it seems Google’s been introducing precocious to lure radical into buying their services and products. Last year, for example, the institution announced Google Fi subscribers tin get $5 disconnected their monthly program erstwhile they bargain the then-brand-new Pixel Pass subscription.

In immoderate ways, Pixel Pass is akin to Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program and Apple One services bundle. Subscribers tin wage for their Pixel telephone successful monthly installments and get upgrades aft 2 years, for example. They tin besides get escaped entree to YouTube Premium, 200GB of Google One unreality storage, Google Play Pass, YouTube Music Premium, and more.