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Facebook Will Be Free Traffic on Telstra Mobile 'Soon'
Post by trog @ 11:25am 19/05/10 | 17 Comments
Facebook have unveiled 0.facebook.com - a version of the site that is free traffic on mobile devices.
It's free: Thanks to the help of mobile operators we collaborated with, people can access 0.facebook.com without any data charges. Using 0.facebook.com is completely free. People will only pay for data charges when they view photos or when they leave 0.facebook.com to browse other mobile sites. When they click to view a photo or browse another mobile site a notification page will appear to confirm that they will be charged if they want to leave 0.facebook.com
Australia is not in the current list, but there's a footnote at the bottom that says "Soon, 0.facebook.com will also be available from the following operators: Telstra in Australia..." - indicating that Australians on (some?) Telstra mobile services will soon have unmetered access to Facebook.

That's pretty good news for Telstra-based Facebook readers, though note you will still get charged if you view any photos - thus making the whole thing somewhat less useful. ( Don't forget to 'Like' us! on Facebook!@#)


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TicMan
Posted 11:32am 19/5/10
Good news for Facebook addicts but even better news is that a site like FB can get an archaic monopoly like Telstra to offer something for free!@%
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glynd
Posted 11:36am 19/5/10
kind of cool but lame in a sense that the android facebook app will still be metered.
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CSIRAC
Posted 11:51am 19/5/10
It says you will still pay for viewing photos? Thats kinda of pointless?
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taggs
Posted 11:56am 19/5/10
People will only pay for data charges when they view photos or when they leave 0.facebook.com to browse other mobile sites.


wouldn't the majority of bandwidth use on facebook be viewing photos/embedded vids/other media? and this doesn't appear to cover that?
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greazy
Posted 11:58am 19/5/10
this is retarded.
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dynamite
Posted 12:01pm 19/5/10
Pointless, who pays for Facebook these days? It's free in nearly all mobile plans.
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groganus
Posted 12:22pm 19/5/10
just deleted my facebook account, was pretty f*****g lame process to go through.
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trog
Posted 12:33pm 19/5/10
kind of cool but lame in a sense that the android facebook app will still be metered.
It might not be if they can make it draw the data from this new site?
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Hogfather
Posted 12:59pm 19/5/10
Do Telstra do that thing where they charge for air time as well as data while you are using the phone on the interwebs?

Could be some nasty, nasty bills if they pimp free FaceBook and people are unaware that free data may not == free air time.
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tequila
Posted 01:01pm 19/5/10
does facebook really use that much data that anyone would care if it were free or not?
I never use my 1GB per month and I think I'm a heavy user?
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Hogfather
Posted 01:02pm 19/5/10
How often are you using 3G tho? I'm on my phone's internet a fair bit, but usually within range of wi-fi.
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TicMan
Posted 01:49pm 19/5/10
Do Telstra do that thing where they charge for air time as well as data while you are using the phone on the interwebs?


Have not seen any mention of air time and all their data usage T&Cs just say x number of megabytes per month.
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Midda
Posted 01:51pm 19/5/10
Do Telstra do that thing where they charge for air time as well as data while you are using the phone on the interwebs?

Nah, they don't. I don't think any mobile provider has ever done that, seems pretty retarded.
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foolix
Posted 02:55pm 19/5/10
awesome...... What's next? Unlimited google searches?
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parabol
Posted 05:13pm 19/5/10
Mandatory reading for anyone who has a facebook account:

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/security/permanently-delete-your-facebook-profile-account/

The facebook devs/CEO are a pack of carnts.

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Syco
Posted 06:44pm 19/5/10
What's the point? Anything but images would just be text right? A saving of a few KB a day?

I suppose there's the java games but they don't really translate well to a phone unless there's a native app for them.
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Hogfather
Posted 07:09pm 19/5/10
Do Telstra do that thing where they charge for air time as well as data while you are using the phone on the interwebs?
Nah, they don't. I don't think any mobile provider has ever done that, seems pretty retarded.

Pretty sure parabol was saying earlier that data usage counted as air time on Voda?
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