Facebook to launch text-only mobile service Zero
Posted by Alisa Zykova on February 17, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Facebook will launch Zero, its text-only version that may be offered by mobile phone carriers for free, according to TechCrunch. The low-bandwidth service that doesn't offer access to photos will be launched "in the coming weeks", Hexus today reported."We are discussing it... as an option to make Facebook on the mobile web available to everyone, anywhere and allow operators to encourage more mobile Internet usage," said a Facebook spokesperson, according to BBC News.
The social network announced at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that more than 100 million users access its services from their mobile phones, according to Hexus.
Data from the GSM Association, which specialises in GSM mobile technology, revealed that UK users who use their mobile phone to access the Web spend almost half of their time on Facebook.
Data from the GSM Association, which specialises in GSM mobile technology, revealed that UK users who use their mobile phone to access the Web spend almost half of their time on Facebook.
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