Facebook is launching its new project which is to make the Internet more affordable for all. For this purpose the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asked six big companies including Samsung Electronics and Qualcomn Inc for a project which aims at making the Internet more affordable that can easily be accessible to everyone around the world.
The new project called Internet.org and will launch on 21st August, 2013 on Wednesday. Through this project more than 5 billion people can use Internet at an affordable price.
“The goal of Internet.org is to make Internet access available to the two-thirds of the world who are not yet connected and to bring the same opportunities to everyone that the connected third of the world has today,” said Zuckerberg.
Another 4 companies in the project include Ericsson, MediaTek Inc, Nokia, and Opera SoftwareASA. Millions or billions of people can get low-cost Internet access through this partnership with higher-quality smartphones, Facebook said. This will increase the traffic on Facebook by getting more people online, said vice president of growth and analytics on Facebook, Javier Olivan. The Internet can be accessed by everyone on their mobile phones.
Following are some steps this goal includes:
Increasing efficiency of mobile networks, data centers, data transmission, and spectrum allocation.
Reducing the amount of data apps have to pull from networks through caching, compression, and futuristic technologies like peer-to-peer data transfer.
Making investments in accessibility profitable by educating people about the uses of data, creating business models that thrive when free data access is offered initially, and building out the credit card infrastructure so carriers can move from pre-paid to post-paid models that facilitate investment.
Google is soon launching a small network of balloons over the Hemisphere in Southern region. This experiment was conducted to bring reliable Internet access to the most remote regions around the world, the company said in June. This pilot program was conducted in June at New Zealand’s South Island, by using the solar powered, high-altitude balloon that was left in the air about 12.5 miles (20 kilometers), above the ground like airplanes, said Google.
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