Facebook looking to increase its international presence, has launched this Monday Messenger Lite, an application’s most compact Messenger original in order to reach out to emerging markets.
it Is an app that uses less data, and is designed for use in areas with slower Internet connections, so they will initially come to Venezuela, Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, later will expand to other countries.
The company’s technology is largely saturated in western markets, including North America and Europe, and takes aim at the developing countries, in part due to the deployment of the versions of “lite” of Facebook, your main app, and now Messenger, which have less capacity than the main applications, according to Reuters.
users with phones with Android operating system will still be able to use the main features of Messenger, including the ability to send text messages, photos and links, but may not be able to record videos, make calls of voice or make payments.
“we Want to ensure that the products Messenger are truly for all”, said David Marcus, chief Messenger, in an interview.
Facebook also offers a simplified version in more than three dozen countries, so-called Free Basics, to connect to the internet to people who don’t have a reliable connection.
The chairman and ceo of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has repeatedly said that the mission of the company is to get the whole world to be connected to the internet.
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