The relationship between telecommunications companies and messaging applications such as Messenger and WhatsApp, Facebook, is “symbiotic” not hostile, said the chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, to a large audience at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona, in a conversation that addressed issues from providing connectivity to the world’s poor to disputes encryption.
While the billionaire founder of Facebook admitted that “in every relationship can be tensions,” believes that the interaction between telecommunications networks and messaging platforms is complementary. He noted that increased use of messaging services, especially to send pictures and video, more traffic means more income–and for telecommunications networks.
The companies in the sector simply have to adopt business models who make money from data transmission instead of text messages or voice, Zuckerberg said, adding that many networks have already made this shift said.
Facebook needs data networks for mobile phone work better and faster design products as virtual reality and streaming video. That is why we ask telecommunications companies to partner and share designs in a move that could accelerate the spread of 5G connectivity.
Government regulation
Zuckerberg also said that no He believes that the government should regulate the messaging applications in the same way it does with traditional network operators because telecommunications companies build infrastructure, from fiber to cell towers, while Facebook does not. He added that Facebook believes that governments should give telecommunications companies providing the freedom to create 5G capacity.
By providing more details on Facebook released a statement last week in support of Apple Inc. in its struggle to resist a legal provision that requires it to help the government to break the encryption of an iPhone used in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, Zuckerberg said he sympathized with the position of Apple.
” I do not think that requiring backdoors in encryption is an effective way to ensure security, “he said.
During the conversation, the Chief executive also expressed disappointment over India’s decision to block the service free Basics of Facebook that provided free access limited to the Internet. “It is a major setback for India,” he said.
Zuckerberg added that his company and Internet.org coalition of technology companies founded Facebook continue to try to find other ways to reach an amount estimated 1,000 million people in India who lack regular access to Internet. “Facebook does not give as an obstacle,” he said.
Internet.org performed tests with a solar-powered drone would use laser transmission technology to bring Internet connectivity to some of the most inaccessible places planet
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