Facebook drones to offer low-cost net access

[mjolk]

>The plans form part of Facebook's ambitions to extend its reach beyond its 1.2 billion audience, thinks Ovum analyst Mark Little.

Sure, Facebook will see some new users and this opens the door to some concerning data mining (SSL is heavy for the sort of latency and throughput I'd expect from a drone). That said, drone-delivered wifi is an amazing feat.

[schnevets]

I understand why Google would want to provide free wi-fi - they essentially make money whenever someone visits a web site - but I can't understand why Facebook would follow suit. I can only assume these drones will be more oriented towards messaging services, since that seems to be their new initiative.

[wehadfun]

How much link bait can be fit into a title

[72deluxe]

Haha very true. It isn't really a newsworthy article for the BBC. They might as well start running articles on everyone with ambitions and plans.

"Someone plans for World Peace". "Man wants to visit Mars" "Student plans to get a job"

It's all very vague.

Might be useful if it works though I suppose, but hardly worthy of news.

[ChikkaChiChi]

If they only could have added the word 'Oculus' in there somehow.

[shinryuu]

It makes me wonder how the Google Loon project moves forward.

[asharpe]

April Fools setup anyone?