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March 28, 2014, 07:50:54 AM |
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Facebook (FB_) has grand and ambitious plans to connect everyone on Earth to the Internet, with its Internet.org initiative. Today, it announced the next steps behind this initiative.
In a post to his Facebook page, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Connectivity Lab, the team getting this plan up and running, and how it's going to do so. "Our goal with Internet.org is to make affordable access to basic internet services available to every person in the world," Zuckerberg said on the Facebook post. "Today, we're sharing some details of the work Facebook's Connectivity Lab is doing to build drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to everyone."
Zuckerberg noted that the plan has shown an early return on investment, helping get 3 million new people connected to the Internet in the Philippines and Paraguay alone.
At the time of the Internet.org announcement, Zuckerberg noted that though smartphones are likely to get cheaper in the coming years, it is still a difficult task to get people connected to the Internet in third-world countries, because the cost of data is so high. "Even though projections show most people will get smartphones in the next decade, most people still won't have data access because the cost of data remains much more expensive than the price of a smartphone," Zuckerberg wrote in the initial blog post, announcing Internet.org in Aug. 2013.
Facebook is working with Nokia (NOK_), Qualcomm (QCOM_), Samsung, Ericsson (ERIC_), MediaTek and Opera on the initiative.
"Our team has many of the world's leading experts in aerospace and communications technology, including from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and Ames Research Center," Zuckerberg went on to say in the post. "Today we are also bringing on key members of the team from Ascenta, a small UK-based company whose founders created early versions of Zephyr, which became the world's longest flying solar-powered unmanned aircraft. They will join our team working on connectivity aircraft."
Facebook is rumored to have been in talks with drone maker Titan Aerospace for $60 million to help with the plan.
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March 28, 2014, 07:58:30 AM |
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Google wanted balloons with mesh routers with radios, but this is worse from a technical viewpoint.
FB needs new management. FB is totally untrustworthy.
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March 28, 2014, 07:09:31 PM |
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Will you be able to connect without being on facebook?
If it's just a plan to get more customers, it isn't nice. It's also a bit of a gimmick when you think that more than one billion people don't have running water in their home. Millions don't even have a home.
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I used to be a citizen and a taxpayer. Those days are long gone.
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March 29, 2014, 02:50:31 AM |
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Google wanted balloons with mesh routers with radios, but this is worse from a technical viewpoint.
FB needs new management. FB is totally untrustworthy.
I said is just your wishful thinking, to be tolerant of others to understand others. |
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March 29, 2014, 02:51:19 AM |
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Google wanted balloons with mesh routers with radios, but this is worse from a technical viewpoint.
FB needs new management. FB is totally untrustworthy.
I said is just your wishful thinking, to be tolerant of others to understand others. |
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March 29, 2014, 07:28:36 AM |
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Google wanted balloons with mesh routers with radios, but this is worse from a technical viewpoint.
FB needs new management. FB is totally untrustworthy.
I said is just your wishful thinking, to be tolerant of others to understand others. Even to forgive others, but also have their own ideas, assertive is a good thing. |
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March 29, 2014, 08:16:33 PM
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Will you be able to connect without being on facebook?
If it's just a plan to get more customers, it isn't nice. It's also a bit of a gimmick when you think that more than one billion people don't have running water in their home. Millions don't even have a home.
Even worse than food and water!Billions of new FB users will realize how terrible their FB pages look like, taking selfies in front of their dirt made hut using their 0.5MP camera phones....  |
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March 30, 2014, 01:03:41 AM |
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So those people without safe drinking water, stable food supply or basic sanitation will now have internet access. And the new slogan of this social neworking site will be Anytime Anywhere Facebook!
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March 30, 2014, 06:08:00 AM |
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Will you be able to connect without being on facebook?
If it's just a plan to get more customers, it isn't nice. It's also a bit of a gimmick when you think that more than one billion people don't have running water in their home. Millions don't even have a home.
Indeed this is terrible, be hardly worthy of belief. |
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March 30, 2014, 08:19:23 AM |
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Will you be able to connect without being on facebook?
If it's just a plan to get more customers, it isn't nice. It's also a bit of a gimmick when you think that more than one billion people don't have running water in their home. Millions don't even have a home.
Even worse than food and water!Billions of new FB users will realize how terrible their FB pages look like, taking selfies in front of their dirt made hut using their 0.5MP camera phones.... https://i.imgur.com/HPEBDYS.jpgThis picture is really handsome. Are you an old Indian, cool. |
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March 30, 2014, 05:04:59 PM |
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I'm not surprised that Facebook is working with Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung and others
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March 30, 2014, 05:10:31 PM |
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Will you be able to connect without being on facebook?
If it's just a plan to get more customers, it isn't nice. It's also a bit of a gimmick when you think that more than one billion people don't have running water in their home. Millions don't even have a home.
Even worse than food and water!Billions of new FB users will realize how terrible their FB pages look like, taking selfies in front of their dirt made hut using their 0.5MP camera phones.... This picture is really handsome. Are you an old Indian, cool. I really like that picture indeed. Who knows? Maybe he is using M-Pesa already... |
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March 31, 2014, 05:36:42 PM |
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Let's remember that web access also means telephone access..And this might be more of what's at the stake here. In this context the” combination of drones ,satellites and lasers” make sense -as perhaps the high price Facebook paid for WhatsApp.
For sure,Facebook and Google efforts towards universal web access are fantastic news for people everywhere.....
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March 31, 2014, 09:17:32 PM |
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Let's remember that web access also means telephone access..And this might be more of what's at the stake here. In this context the” combination of drones ,satellites and lasers” make sense -as perhaps the high price Facebook paid for WhatsApp.
For sure,Facebook and Google efforts towards universal web access are fantastic news for people everywhere.....
Unfiltered news from people everywhere? |
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April 02, 2014, 04:34:56 PM |
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What happened to the outernet project? Dropped?
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