Last week I took part in a Zoom presentation about creating the perfect streaming bundle. I had set out to create a bundle appropriate for seniors and looked to find the best deals so that the new bundle would be a bargain compared to the $100/month they were likely currently paying for cable.

What I found blew me away though: if you were willing to subscribe to the ad-supported versions of most of the services, and you had a certain mobile carrier and certain credit cards, you could get seven popular services for the seemingly unbelievable price of just $11.32/month! 

Here’s how the hack works.

Mobile Carrier Deals

T-Mobile has worked some incredible deals for its customers. That surprised me in that neither of its competitors (Verizon and AT&T) have anything close. 

To wit, as a T-Mobile subscriber with a Go5G Plus plan, you get the following services free, at least for the first year:

• Netflix

• Apple TV+

• Hulu

• ViX Premium

Now to be fair, Verizon also has some deals if T-Mobile is not in the cards for you, but they’re not free. Their Disney+-Hulu-ESPN+ bundle is just $10/month, as is the Netflix/Max bundle, so $20/month for all five services.

Which is a lot more than free.

Year-Long Deals

You can get Netflix for free with T-Mobile, and so I’d suggest skipping Verizon’s deal and going with free Netflix and the full-year Max bundle. At $99.99/year, that comes out to just $8.33/month.

Now that you’ve got five streaming services nailed down for just $8.33/month, you can add in Paramount+ and Peacock.

Credit Card Deals

The former is available free if you have an American Express Platinum card. Getting it is sort of tricky though: you need to subscribe to Walmart+ first, as AmEx will refund your monthly Walmart subscription fee. Once you’ve got Walmart+, you can take advantage of their offer to get Paramount+ (with ads) for free.

Though if you don’t have (or want) a Platinum card, the cost for Paramount+’s yearly plan is just $5/month.

For Peacock, you can pay $6.67/month to get on their yearly plan. Or, if you have a World Elite Mastercard, that price comes down to just $2.99/month.

So let’s review.

Just for switching to T-Mobile, you can get Apple, Netflix, Hulu and ViX for free. Add in free Paramount+ thanks for AmEx, $2.99 Peacock thanks to Mastercard and $8.33 Max with a yearly plan. So all seven for just $11.32/month!

If high-fee credit cards aren’t your thing, that price goes up just a bit, to $20/month, which, IMHO, is still quite the steal.

The downside is there will be ads, but there won’t be that many of them (about half the ad load of traditional TV) and they should be tailored to your needs and wants. (“Should be” being the operative words here. Let’s just say the services are working on that part.)

It’s only a one-year deal too—after 12 months those prices all turn into pumpkins, but for that year, you will be living large for next to nothing.

You’re welcome.