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The
app, called Facebook Lite, is available in countries across Asia
and will soon make its way to parts of Latin America, Africa and
Europe, Vijay Shankar, product manager for Facebook Lite, said
in an interview. In many of those countries, people still use 2G
networks, which are much slower and have less power than the 4G
networks in many developed nations.
"We want to offer people a choice so if there are limitations,
they can still get the full Facebook experience," Shankar said.
The app uses less than one-half of a megabyte of data to limit
data usage and rates for those in emerging markets. While it
still supports Facebook's News Feed, status updates,
notifications and photos, it does not support videos and
advanced location services.
Facebook Lite is part of the world's largest social media
network's expansion into emerging markets. Earlier this year,
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Internet.org, a
platform developed with six technology partners to connect 4.5
billion people with no current access to the Internet.
(Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb; Editing by Richard Chang)
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