How to Get Your Free Year of Disney+ If You’re a Verizon Customer

First , a couple of things to know . A Verizonspokesperson told Gizmodoin October that the liberal twelvemonth of the avail applies exclusively to Disney+ and does not extend to its $ 13 bundle that admit ESPN+ and ad - tolerate Hulu . But with the Verizon softwood , you will get all of the access and perks that you ’d get with the received $ 7 subscription programme , so it ’s still a buy . ( And you may , of course , still support to Hulu and ESPN+ main of Disney+ . )

The service is available to all new and exist 4 G LTE and 5 G unlimited wireless customers as well as any incoming Verizon Fios Home Internet and 5 thousand Home cyberspace customers . If that ’s you , steer to Verizon ’s Disney+ landing pageright hereand gyre to the bottom of the Thomas Nelson Page , where you ’ll be prompted to “ Get Disney+ . ”

After you enter your Verizon username and parole , one of two things will belike happen : you ’ll either be prompted to corroborate you want Disney+ sum up to your account at the $ 7 per month after your gratuitous year , or you ’ll bunk into a permissions yield ( more on that in a minute ) .

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If you were able to correct up your Disney+ subscription without issue , congrats ! you may now start cyclosis onjust about every platform . Accessing service may be a little bumpy at first , though . Downdectorlogged thousandsof complaint about service interruptions the morning of its acquittance , in all probability due to the sheer numeral of multitude attempting to reach the platform . Here ’s what you ’ll probably see on background if that ’s the suit :

bug are to be await at launching , and it appeared as though access to the overhaul went in and out over the form of the morning . In reply to the outage , Disney+ said in a statement per theHollywood Reporterthat “ consumer demand for Disney+ has outperform our high outlook . We are working to quickly fix the current user payoff . We appreciate your patience . ”

If you hit a snag in adding Disney+ , you may be on a share Verizon plan and miss the permissions to add the service to your accounting . Contact your account bearer and request access — you’re able to do so by clicking the red data link on the Thomas Nelson Page thwarting your Star Wars binge — and see if you’re able to be total as an account manager for the service .

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If you ’re on a shared plan , a Verizon spokesperson told Gizmodo that the offer only allow for one Disney+ subscription per plan , meaning you ’ll have to portion out . But for many people , that may not weigh , as Disney+ allows for up to seven substance abuser profiles and simultaneous cyclosis on up to four equipment at once .

Beyond the table service disruption on background , we did get Disney+ to work on Roku , but it took a couple of tries to get it up and running . Also note that if you sign on up for Disney+ ahead of time but endeavor to actuate your free year , Verizon may severalise you that you ’re already a customer your rank will be paused .

Updated with comment from Verizon .

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