Facebook launches new mobile site 0.facebook.com but not in Australia
Posted on May 19, 2010 by by valerirojas
Today Facebook launched a new website specially for mobile phones called 0.facebook.com.
0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all the features from Facebook but is optimized for speed. Facebook blog post.
Collaborating with operators from around the world, we developed this new mobile site with two main attributes:
- It’s fast: 0.facebook.com includes all the key features of our standard mobile site m.facebook.com. Users can update their status, view their News Feed, like or comment on posts, send and reply to messages, or write on their friends’ Wall just as they do on Facebook.com. Rather than making photos viewable on 0.facebook.com, we put the photos one click away so they don’t slow down the experience. You can still view any photos on Facebook if you want but your regular data fees will apply.
- It’s free: Thanks to the help of mobile operators we collaborated with, people can access 0.facebook.com without any data charges. Using 0.facebook.com is completely free. People will only pay for data charges when they view photos or when they leave 0.facebook.com to browse other mobile sites. When they click to view a photo or browse another mobile site a notification page will appear to confirm that they will be charged if they want to leave 0.facebook.com
The website is currently available through more than 50 mobile operators in 45 countries and territories with zero data charges. That is great news but not if you are living in Australia.
This is as bad as Twitter’s World Location Trends not including Australia in it. This makes me wonder if Australians are still a minority when it comes to using social networks world wide or are there other issues we don’t know about.
The good news is that 0.facebook.com will be available in Australia soon by Telstra, but how soon is soon?
Current mobile operators supporting 0.facebook.com:
