Facebook speeds up Web in Indonesia

Facebook’s project to bring the Internet to rural and developing areas around the globe worked with wireless companies in Indonesia to speed up local mobile applications by up to 70 percent.

Over the last year, Facebook’s Internet.org project has been working with two companies -- Ericsson and XL Axiata -- to analyze and speed up people’s access to the Web via their smartphones, without building major new infrastructure. “The network-wide adjustments delivered up to 70 percent improvement in network performance from the user perspective,” Internet.org said. “Thanks to this research, we now have a replicable model for analyzing, measuring and improving network performance that can be applied to any mobile network,” it added. “This will help operators cost-effectively target network improvements to the areas that affect users most, which means greater utility for the two-thirds of the world not yet connected.”