Facebook’s Open Compute Project, where the company will share its technology for the servers in their data centers to create greater demand and lower prices, has saved the company two billion US dollars since it started. It says company founder Mark Zuckerberg from the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Now he wants to repeat the same trick, but for mobile networks. The expansion of mobile broadband is too slow for Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. He is not satisfied with the pace when it comes to give us that already have mobile data faster networks, or to connect the billions of people who still do not have access to the Internet.
– I hope to focus on more bandwidth but also that we continue to do our job to connect all the people, said Mark Zuckerberg.
with the initiative Telecom Infrastructure Project, TIP, will this work with operators and equipment vendors to develop new methods for to build mobile networks cheaper. With him in this project, including Nokia, Intel promised to share a set of reference designs in hardware. In addition, several mobile operators in the group who should be involved and use the technology developed.
Just like in the Open Compute, the structures that are developed in the project to be open, and this describes it, available to operators without they need to take a package from a manufacturer which will give them greater flexibility when building their networks.
TIP will focus on technologies for several parts of the mobile network including software to control networks. Eventually, the idea is that TIP will also contribute to the development of new standards for 5G.
Facebook has already launched a first project based on the TIP to connect a village in the Philippines, together with the operator Globe. Mark Zuckerberg hopes that the TIP can achieve success also in India where his previously attempted with a free version of a limited internet recently declared illegal. When asked what he learned from the setbacks of India said Mark Zuckerberg.
– The fact that things work differently in different countries.
The effort to produce cheaper and faster mobile networks go hand in hand Mark Zuckerberg’s vision that video will grow substantially on Facebook.
– video is not an end station, said Mark Zuckerberg.
with the VR developer Oculus and a strong personal interest in virtual reality traces Mark Zuckerberg that our next space consuming media to take place in the mobile networks.
Mark Zuckerberg is tury that Facebook does not have a business model to make money in either its earlier project to connect people with drones and satellite or TIP.
– But when people connect to and use Facebook, we have a business model that we know works, he says.
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