SOCIAL NETWORKING giant Facebook is gearing up to tap the unexplored Mobile networking market. In one such move, Facebook said Tuesday it has teamed up with mobile operators in nearly 50 countries to offer a fast and free version of the popular social networking site on cell phones.
Henri Moissinac, head of mobile business for Facebook said “we’ve put all the graphics, the photos, the videos one click away so the site is text only and the pages are super light, super fast to load.”
The new mobile site, 0.facebook.com is optimized for speed and it is free. It has been designed to get around the biggest barriers to the mobile internet—the speed of the experience and the potential cost of browsing. It will be available from 56 mobile operators in 47 countries.
With this, 500 million subscribers could access Facebook mobile for free on their phone. Currently over 100 million active users of Facebook’s present mobile site, m.facebook.com and the new site would allow the Palo Alto, California based social network to expand its reach on the devices.
He said, “Our goal in mobile is to serve every user on very phone in every language on every network.” Users of 0.facebook.com can update their status, see their News Feed, comment on posts and send reply to messages like on Facebook.com. However, users have to pay for watching videos and photos