[amrrs]

Since the rise of Reliance Jio, Two things happened: 1. Sales of Budget 4G Phone. 2. Internet Content Consumption on Phone With that, This is a super-smart move from Netflix to fight Hotstar-like Indian Soap-Opera packed Streaming Services.

In fact, Indians were massively watching Netflix already - but using someone else's Account - which is a very common way of saving money. Now this is Rs. 199 is probably going to change that because it's more like a Mobile Plan Recharge.

I guess this is the power of introducing a price-plan using Data Science as Netlfix's teams must have found out the importance of Smartphone (Device) and the game Indians were playing.

[kalesh]

Netflix has device restrictions. Everyone knows about Netflix but only a few have paid subscriptions.

[pragmaticlurker]

hope to see those prices also in Europe

[benj111]

Id be interested to know if the downvoters think you're morally wrong, or whether they think its just never going to happen.

I'm reminded of a court case in the UK between Tesco and Levis. Tesco were importing Levis from the US where they retailed and presumably wholesaled for much less than in Europe, but were forced to stop distribution due to trademark rules. I wonder if you could avoid that by reselling debranded Netflix, I'd guess you'd fall foul of a load of other laws doing that though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1261829.stm

[paulddraper]

Not a downvoter, but I'm guessing it's the "never gonna happen."

Kind of ridiculous to believe otherwise.

[cobookman]

You could just use a VPN service

[aogl]

Netflix has VERY good VPN and proxy detection.. give it a try..

[benj111]

And presumably an indian bank account and/or sim card? I'm not really up on my VPNs wrt accessing mobile only content.