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Facebook will slow down employee's Internet on Tuesdays so they can better understand emerging markets

article published on 28 October, 2015

Facebook has announced this week the start of "2G Tuesdays," an initiative that will slow down employee's Internet speed so they can "close the empathy gap" between the heart of the tech world and emerging markets like India and parts of Africa. 2G speeds are incredibly slow but are still used in many parts of the world. Compared to an LTE connection, loading a simple page or app like ... [ read the full article ]

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So I hope they will see how much bandwidth the forced video clips are, they are for the most part really annoying from my perspective.
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