Mark Zuckerberg Focuses on Carriers, Not Balloons, at Cellular World Congress

Fb co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg let a bit of the air out of Google‘s Project Loon balloons throughout a session at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Monday.

Talking about each Undertaking Loon, Google’s initiative to offer Web entry by way of balloons touring excessive within the stratosphere, in addition to Fb’s personal efforts to perform the identical objectives with drones by way of its Facebook Connectivity Lab, Zuckerberg stated, as reported by CNET:

Individuals like speaking about that stuff as a result of it is attractive. That is on the fringe of the actual work that is happening. ninety % of the individuals on the planet already reside inside vary of the community.

Zuckerberg had some reward for Google, as nicely, as TechCrunch reported that when he was requested about the potential for Fb-spearheaded initiative Internet.org working with Undertaking Loon, he stated:

Positive. Once we launched the Internet.org application in Zambia with our operator associate there … one of many apps we launched with was Google search, as a result of search is a vital product and piece of performance individuals all over the world need. I might like to do extra with them, and (Google senior vice chairman <a goal="_self" rel="nofollow" title="Andy Rubin steps down as head of Android, Sundar Pichai tapped

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