Facebook Devoted To Increase Internet Access in Africa

Facebook wishes to penetrate Internet to Africa.

Facebook Inc. is devoted to bringing Internet to those regions that do not access to this facility. The company initially came up with Internet.org with an aim to provide access to Internet to the masses and that even free of cost. The company’s latest target has been to penetrate this service to the African region and empowering the local users through the power of the Internet. In accordance to Facebook, the company is all keen to come up with a satellite that will be launched in Africa. FB partnered with the French firm Eutelsat Communications with an aim to bring the Internet to the massive parts of the sub-Saharan African region. The company has an aim to increase Internet access and that merely through smartphones since they are being sued readily across the globe. Facebook products and services will use the satellite to spread Internet.org platform so that it can make the service reach mobile users in Africa. As per reports, the service is currently in the pipeline and will be launched in the African market by 2016. AMOS-6 is the name of the new satellite that will be able to cover major chunks of the East, Southern African and East as reported by Mr. Mark Zuckerberg who is the chief executive officer of Facebook. The FB executives stated, "To connect people living in remote regions, traditional connectivity infrastructure is often difficult and inefficient, so we need to invent new technologies.” The Internet.org medium will offer the masses free Internet access by collaborating with the pared web services that deal with job listing, education, agriculture, healthcare etc. along with this, the company will have its own messaging and social media network service. The rate at which the number of people who have Internet access is declining at a rampant pace where almost half of the world’s population has not made its way to the online world as reported by the United Nations Broadband Commission the previous month. According to the data by the company, Facebook currently has almost 20 million people that use the social media platform in the Nigeria and Kenya which belongs to Africa. Majority of the people that use this service within the region are mobile users. The social media giant has established its first office in Johannesburg. Popular tech based website known as The Information previously claimed that the company has canceled its plans to establish a satellite to offer Internet in Africa.