Netflix confirmed today that it’s now available in 130 new countries, including India, Russia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Nigeria, Singapore, Turkey, Indonesia, and South Korea. Prior to today, Netflix was available in 60 countries. It’s now available just about everywhere on Earth, aside from China, North Korea, Syria, and Crimea.
Netflix announced the news today during the opening keynote for CES’ 2016 consumer electronics trade show in Vegas. The massive expansion serves as a counter to Netflix’s recent sluggish growth in the U.S.
This is some good news really.
Basic plan is $8. Just $3 on top my Deezer sub.
Now where is smile and the other isps for some unlimited data cap? I can’t be streaming shows on $4.5GB data cap.
mehn…data is the key here whether Netflix is here or not but anyway nigerians and the way we are at times, they will start posing with “I’m Netflixing…”
Hopefully they’ll sponsor (or write white papers on) research on compression algorithms or some form of peer to peer tech. Any idea where iRoko stores their movies? Or the closest CDN outlet?
Even people who never subscribed to iRoko with the excuse that data bundle ain’t cheap will rush to watch 3 hours movie on Netflix…
… And many would be watching Nollywood on Netflix.
The colonial masters did a thorough job.
Stop being snobbish. Those who really claimed iroko was too expensive wouldn’t be on Netflix for long either. Others who never tried iroko cos they would rather not pay to watch movies that only serves to dumb them down are allowed to hail this new development. I mean, it’s a fucking massive library of options… and it’s available on pretty much every home entertainment system setup.
Perhaps the only job we didn’t do was to get our acts together after the colonial masters introduced us to the mirror.
Ever heard of wifi.com.ng? well they offer unlimited data for N9,500 monthly , use it for my office and my business partner for his home. Not too bad but the downtime could be frustrating but I guess its a new start to solve the data issue.
Haha, was just about to share this link. My monthly money will go to Netflix before any other streaming site. And like all things American, the Nigerian nouveau riche will eat it up.
This is an opportunity for telcos to provide unlimited data plans.
iROKO uses Brightcove, which uses edgecast for CDN I believe. Netflix already has a plan for ISP Partners and designs their own devices which ISPs can use to cache within their network. See here-
Through this partnership, mobile ISPs like T-Mobile within the US can provide free Netflix video streaming as long as you have an active data plan. Netflix data doesn’t count towards your data cap (I use T-Mobile and Netflix streaming is free).
