Netflix CEO Announced Plans to Offer Service in Cambodia

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Netflix CEO Announced Plans to Offer Service in Cambodia

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The good news: Netflix has plans to offer their streaming service in Cambodia.

The bad news: Netflix might not be available in Cambodia until the end of 2016.

They have plans to offer their services across 200 countries by the end of next year, having already started in Asia, which is available in Japan already.

From the Phnom Penh Post:

Netflix, the world’s biggest internet television network, is set to change the local pay-TV landscape when it launches services in Cambodia next year as part of a global rollout.

“We intend to offer our service globally by the end of 2016 and that includes Cambodia,” Netflix spokesman Jonathan Friedland told the Post in an email.

Netflix has 65 million subscribers in over 50 countries and has borrowed $1 billion to finance a global presence. The US-based streaming video on demand (SVOD) giant already has a foothold in Asia, having entered the Japanese market last month, and plans to move into Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea early next year...

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