Facebook for poverty-stricken areas connected to the Internet, United States people have something to say-
Facebook, Zuckerberg-IT information
Beijing time on July 7, Facebook released OpenCellular, an open source wireless access platform for providing network services in the remote areas of the world.
To make surprise is that the United States people have unlimited Internet access!
One Netizen wrote in the news: OpenCellular in the United States use it? United States many residents do not have access to the Internet, or can "dial up" (believe it or not!! ）
Many people shout agrees, well, small series are letters.
All in all, OpenCellular to the benefit of remote areas, but this is not Facebook PR once public projects, but part of Facebook connect programme to the world.
As early as 2013, Zuckerberg personally wrote "Internet access is a fundamental human right" (a Human Right Is Connectivity?) article, said only 2.7 billion people can now use the Internet, the 1/3,Facebook let the world network of the world's population, and issued a "block plan", including the three important goals:
? More efficient data transmission, Internet access becomes cheaper
? Improve the efficiency of app and user experience, using less data
? Develop new mode of Internet access, corporate Internet access
It looks like the Government work report described General Grand text, Zuckerberg is not talking big, right?
World Network, Zuckerberg is not bragging
"Let the world network" can be described as heroic, but Facebook is hard to do, has carried out a series of projects. 2013 Facebook joining Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung and other companies Internet.org Alliance, the Coalition's goal is to make the world's poorest regions is available on the Internet, and received the support of the United Nations.
2014 Facebook Connectivity laboratory was founded and launched its first large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle project, is the very famous "Aquila" solar-powered UAV designed to wireless laser communication, transmission networks, effectively sending high-speed Internet to areas in need of cable Internet access.
From: Belfast Telegraph
The next big move is the OpenCellular, corresponding to the "block plan" in the third objective: develop new Internet models, and were joined by other enterprises, with Internet access. Therefore, this project has these features: easy to install, robust, open source, cheaper.
From: Facebook's official website
OpenCellular very much like a dinner plate, can be installed on a pole, can also be installed in the trees. It is composed of two subsystems: a system responsible for common functions and ordinary base-band calculation, one system is responsible for signal transmission, which will carry out some degree of modularity.
In addition, OpenCellular will be installed in areas with difficult conditions, industrial and mechanical design goal is to make sure that it is strong enough, can withstand high winds and extreme temperatures, and also ensuring that the compact, a person will be able to complete the installation.
Facebook will OpenCellular open source hardware design, firmware and software, telecommunication operators, enterprises, researchers and equipment manufacturers can put OpenCellular into the version you want.
Now OpenCellular is still in the testing and development stages, did not disclose a price, but keep the cost down is one of the most important goals of this project.
Why is caught up in "world network"?
Facebook has a huge social networking Kingdom, include Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, VR also is seen as the next-generation computing platform company Oculus. Facebook is such a confident of attracting each and every potential user, but for the people in those areas with no Internet, Facebook can't do anything.
So in order to get to those users, Facebook has done the most radical thing: network services available to them.
Zuckerberg also said: "this is not entirely altruistic behavior, when we get more connections, we can also benefit. ”
The market share of the billions of people, the Giants are bound to fight!
Google launched in 2013 a similar "Project Loon", between 10km to 20km and hot air balloon floating in the air, a hot-air balloon carrying the signal transceiver for wireless network, providing Internet access services for ground.
From: Newsfirst LK
A profound impact on the world of the Internet business, health care, education, social security and other economic chain, has nearly saturated the developed regions, remote areas still in the infancy of the Internet represents a huge potential market.
Just as Harry Mccracken reviews "of such efforts is the altruism of the short-term and long-term mix of capitalism".
Facebook要让穷困地区连上网络，美国人民有话说 -
Facebook,扎克伯格 - IT资讯
北京时间7月7日，Facebook发布OpenCellular，一个开源的无限网络接入平台，为世界上的偏远地区提供网络服务。
令小编惊奇的是，美国人民也还有用不上网的！
一位网友在这条消息下留言说：请问OpenCellular会在美国使用吗？美国许多居民都没有互联网接入，或者只能“拨号上网”（信不信由你！！）
很多人留言表示赞同，好吧，小编是信了。
总之，OpenCellular能够造福偏远地区，但这并不是Facebook公关做的一次公益项目，而是Facebook连接世界的庞大计划的一部分。
早在2013年，扎克伯格亲手撰写“上网是一项基本人权吗”（Is Connectivity a Human Right?）一文，称如今只有27亿人能够使用网络，占世界人口的1/3，Facebook要让世界连接入网，并发布了“概略计划”，包括三个重要目标：
• 更高效地传输数据，让上网变得便宜
•提升app的运行效率和用户体验，使用更少的数据
•开发人们上网新模式，让企业推动互联网的接入
这看起来像政府工作报告一般模糊宏大的文字描述，扎克伯格不是在说大话吧？
让全世界入网，扎克伯格不是在吹牛
“让全世界都联网”，可谓是豪言壮语，但Facebook也实打实地在做了，为此进行了一系列项目。2013年Facebook加入爱立信、诺基亚、高通、三星等公司的Internet.org联盟，该联盟的目的就是让世界上的贫困地区能够上网，并且得到了联合国的支持。
2014年Facebook创立了Connectivity实验室，并推出了其第一个大型无人机项目，就是十分著名的“天鹰”太阳能无人机，旨在激光通信、传输无线网络，可以有效地发送高速互联网到需要光缆才能上网的地方。
图自：Belfast Telegraph
再接下来的大动作就是这次的OpenCellular了，对应着“概略计划”中的第三个目标:开发新的上网模式，并让其他企业加入进来，一起推动互联网的接入。所以，这个项目有这些特点：易于安装、坚固、开源、便宜。
图自：Facebook官网
OpenCellular跟一个餐盘差不多大，可以安装在电线杆上，也可以安装在树上。它主要由两个子系统组成:一个系统负责通用功能和普通的基带计算，另一系统负责信号发射，而这些系统都会进行某种程度的模块化。
另外，OpenCellular将安装在条件十分艰苦的地区,所以工业和机械设计目标都要确保它足够坚固，能承受大风和极端温度，同时又要保证体积小巧，一个人就能完成安装。
Facebook将会开源OpenCellular的硬件设计、固件和控制软件，所以电信运营商、企业、研究人员以及设备制造商都可以把OpenCellular改造成自己想要的版本。
目前OpenCellular还处在测试和开发阶段，没有公布具体价格，但是把成本压低是这个项目最为重要的目标之一。
为什么执着于“让全世界入网”？
Facebook拥有庞大的社交王国，有Instagram、Whatsapp、Messenger,另外还有被看作下一代计算平台的VR公司Oculus。这样的Facebook十分有自信吸引到每一位潜在的用户，然而对于那些没有互联网的地区的人们，Facebook却什么也做不了。
所以为了争取到这些用户，Facebook做了最为彻底的事：为他们提供网络服务。
扎克伯格自己也说：“这并不是完全的利他行为，当我们获得更多连接时，我们也能获益。”
几十亿人口的市场份额，巨头们肯定是要争的！
谷歌也在2013年推出类似的“Project Loon”，让热气球飘浮到10km至20km之间的高空，热气球上携带着无线网络信号的收发器，为地面提供互联网接入服务。
图自：Newsfirst LK
互联网深刻影响着全球商业、医疗、教育、社保等经济链，对于已经几乎饱和了的发达地区，还处在互联网婴儿期的偏远地区意味着巨大的市场潜力。
就如Harry Mccracken所评论的“这种努力是短期的利他主义和长期的资本主义的混合体”。