OPTIMISTIC: The app would spread very quickly as phone operators reap the benefits of increased revenue from new customers using the services, Zuckerberg said during a Reuters interview at the University of Bogota.
BOGOTA: Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg launched a free Internet application in Colombia on Jan 14 as part of a drive to bring developing markets online, but remained mute on when and if the company would look to move into China.
Colombia is the first nation in Latin America and the fourth in the world to receive the new Internet.org service, in partnership with local mobile phone provider Tigo, but the aim is to push the app globally, Zuckerberg told Reuters.
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