Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Facebook's new initiative to connect people

I think this is really great move that could help Facebook to achieve adding many more millions of people in its network in coming years.

Facebook is the latest entrant into the line of companies that are trying to improve the internet access facility to the people in the developing countries. The New York Times reported that on Wednesday Facebook is expected to announce an initiative that cuts the cost of accessing basic internet services in the developing countries. The intention was to make the mobile users to access internet on their handheld devices at lower cost. The mission is partnered with other tech companies like Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson and Qualcomm.These partner companies would work on optimizing the speed of the chips on mobile handsets so that dealing with more data would be lot easier with lesser power consumption.

Probably this could be viewed as a great step by the company towards its mission of adding another billion users within next few years. It is estimated that around 4 billion people in the world have no access to the internet but almost all of them have a mobile phone.

Other tech giants like Google and Twitter have also been trying to offer a free access to their services via mobile and cheaper internet access. All these steps by these companies reveal one thing clearly - future of these tech giants lies in developing countries!


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