Three (3UK) announced that its customers can now browse 0.facebook.com without incurring the standard data charge.
0.facebook.com is a stripped-down, text version of the popular social networking site Facebook. It is designed and optimized for speed and performance with minimal bandwidth usage. At 0.facebook.com, users can do everything that doesn’t requires graphics like updating status, view newsfeed, messaging and adding comments etc.
3 is offering its customers access to this stripped-down version of Facebook completely free of charge. If users click through to photos or videos, they will be prompted that they are now going to normal Facebook and standard charges will be applied when the user leave 0.facebook.com.
“At Three, we want to make the mobile internet easy and affordable for everyone,” says Charlotte Blanchard Director of Products & Services at Three. “We are delighted to work with Facebook to bring one of the most visited mobile websites to our customers for free. We have the only 100% 3G network in the UK so that we can provide our customers with the very best experience of the mobile internet”
The service is available from today.
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