Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com

 Facebook launching another way for people to access Facebook anytime, anywhere: 0.facebook.com. 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed. It initially is available through more than 50 mobile operators in 45 countries and territories with zero data charges.


Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley recently forecast that the two fastest growing areas of the technology industry are the mobile Internet and social services. At Facebook we're at the center of these two trends with more than 100 million people actively using Facebook from their mobile device and with more than 200 mobile operators in 80 countries offering and promoting Facebook Mobile.


By visiting 0.facebook.com on mobile may update its status, view their private flows, comment or send a publication and reading her private message. The main difference lies in the management of photos. Indeed, in order to lighten the page they are hidden and accessed through a link.


For this new mobile portal, Facebook announced it has signed more than fifty contracts with mobile operators in 45 countries. The access is totally free and is mainly in emerging countries which offers unlimited Internet are not as widespread as in France. However, the user will be charged the cost of bandwidth if it wishes to see a picture hidden or leave the site to go to an external page.

Here is the list of countries in which the site is accessible:

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