While speaking at the world’s biggest annual gathering of Mobile Industry Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CEO tried to win over executives from the telecom industry.
Zuckerberg is making efforts to work towards connecting to billions of people without internet access.
The reason for Zuckerberg to join the telecom industry is:-
- The annual gathering was at Barcelona, who have been connecting to the world for decades.
- He said that there are a history and sense of mission in the industry along with long legacy. This is the reason why they do all the work to build the towers and lay the fiber.
- Text messaging which is still a major source of revenue for the telecom industry, argue saying that they invest more in building costly networks.
- WhatsApp and Facebook build apps that allow users to communicate for free.
- The blockbuster of all the social media networks Facebook is expanding the internet to billions of people around the world.
- He announced that the only way to increase and expand the internet access around the world is to take share in the telecom industry wealth.
- The fact is that the ones that are driving are the operators. Asian telecom company Bharti Airtel and Telenor an African company are still analyzing that whether can join the efforts or no.
- The world’s largest social networking company’s efforts to attract more carriers may be working.
- Telecom industry is concerned about Facebook’s impact on the industry was suggested by Chief executive officer and the head of global trade association of operators Jon Fredrik Baksaas.
- While Facebook and Google had offered many web services and also investments in the telecom industry.
- Regulators from the United States are promoting measures for an open internet rule to create a balance between the two companies.