Zuckerberg: “Operators must focus on the data business” – The World

“Operators must focus on delivering data to users, because it is shown that they are willing to pay for it,” said co-founder of Facebook

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 Expansion | Ripe .- Mark Zuckerberg has come for the second year the show mobile phone being held this week in Barcelona to send a message of reassurance to the sector and defend one of his big bets connectivity globally, Internet.org.

But Zuckerberg explanations have not seemed sufficient and the feeling of disappointment has reigned among the 1,800 attendees at the conference by the founder of Facebook. Given the key question of his speech, what he thinks about complaints from operators for their alleged ‘intrusion’, Zuckerberg has made clear that “I am not a regulatory or an operator.

I do not have much to add … this issue does not take too my thoughts (…) The operators should focus on providing data to users, because it is shown that they are willing to pay for it “Zuckerberg added.

The obvious tension between Facebook and operators continued monopolizing the attention of the conference where the presenter of the event, the economist and journalist from Wired magazine, Jessi Hempel, has asked the young businessman if you would like to operators hand and to work together . Zuckerberg has not hesitated to answer a resounding “yes” and defended the internet.org project as just a platform to bring internet to everyone that could also be used by telecom operators.

The firmness of Zuckerberg remained until the farewell, when he released his last message to the operators, “If you want I can help you do business better, help you in what is not right.”

Internet.org

internet.org is a project led by Google and Facebook whose main maximum ‘bring network to the largest possible number of users’. This task began years ago when Facebook suggested ‘Facebook Zero’, an initiative that was to bring the social network for free to certain regions during a certain time.

Although the project did not quite jell, the idea of ​​putting Internet within reach of more people has remained among the objectives of the young founder of the social network under the intenet.org project. This platform allows downloading a free application that gives the user access to a limited version of Facebook and other basic services such as health and education.

But this plan has the clear opposition of the operators that ensure These companies want to use infrastructure in which they have not invested to bring their own benefits.

The advance of Whatsapp and the virtual disappearance of text messages (SMS ) is a losing battle for operators, who now face back to tech giants and their progress hits.