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AbortRETRYfail: Facebook Lite released in Indonesia

JP/Tertiani ZB SimanjuntakThe largest online social-networking platform now comes in a smaller size as a solution for users concerned about limited bandwidth, avoiding data charges and battery-guzzling mobile applications

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Wed, July 1, 2015

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AbortRETRYfail: Facebook Lite released in Indonesia

JP/Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak

The largest online social-networking platform now comes in a smaller size as a solution for users concerned about limited bandwidth, avoiding data charges and battery-guzzling mobile applications.

Facebook Lite was officially released in Indonesia on Thursday, signaling the onset of a rollout to other countries in the region.

It will be available in the coming week in Latin America, Africa and Europe.

The web-based Facebook client strips out all the frills of regular Facebook but allows users to make use of the essential original features such as updating your status, uploading photos and chatting.

With a requirement of just 435 kilobytes '€” in comparison to the 40 megabytes of the original Facebook app '€” the Lite version performs well on either low-end smartphones or on 2G network connections.

'€œWe continue to want to push ourselves [...] we can do more to give them the best experience. This is about improving the experience for the millions of Facebook users today and about us being passionate and caring
about removing obstacles for the next billion of people [...] Because 2G is not going anytime soon,'€ said Facebook Lite product manager Vijay Shankar, who was in town for the application launch.

The application is now available for Android phones, and it functions well on tablet and Apple devices.

Currently, there are 73 million active users of Facebook in Indonesia, 65 million of whom log on to their accounts from their phones at least once a month.

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