With more than a billion people, Africa is a land of vast, untapped business opportunities for Facebook. And to seize the immense potential that this emerging market presents, the social media giant is going all out to woo users.
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook will launch a new satellite to provide internet service to remote parts of Sub-Saharan Africa in 2016. Remote villages in Sub-Saharan Africa can not be accessed with traditional tech infrastructure. He explains this in a post on his page on Facebook.
The remote satellite called AMOS-6 is just one innovation as part of Facebook internet.org effort to provide internet connectivity to the whole world.
In the post outlining the plan, CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg explains: “Over the last year, Facebook has been exploring ways to use aircraft and satellites to beam internet access down into communities from the sky. To connect people living in remote regions, traditional connectivity infrastructure is often difficult and inefficient, so we need to invent new technologies.”
He also added that Facebook will “work with local partners across the regions to help communities begin accessing internet services provided through satellite.”
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