Facebook’s Mobile Net Widens As Orange Turns On Access In Africa

A significant announcement today that could have a big impact on Facebook and its mobile strategy: the mobile carrier Orange, part of France Telecom, announced that it is rolling out a new service that will let those using even the most low-end mobile phones to access the social network in Africa, where Orange has operations in 20 countries, covering 70 million subscribers. 
The move is important because data access -- both fixed and mobile -- is still very minimal in many parts of the continent: Orange notes that on its own networks in Africa, only between seven and 15 percent of subscribers access data services of any kind. This gives Facebook (and potentially others) a way of getting around that issue and building up relationships anyway.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/facebooks-mobile-net-widens-as-orange-turns-on-access-in-africa/

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