Of course, react minified is something like 137mb... and that's not including any other libraries like flux.
Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
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Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#82Of course, react minified is something like 137mb... and that's not including any other libraries like flux.
i assume you meant kb ...
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#83Of course, react minified is something like 137mb... and that's not including any other libraries like flux.
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Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#84Do Facebookers never venture outside of cities? Because maybe the UK is weird, but getting 2G even in developed areas isn't that uncommon for me. Sure there's 4G in cities and 3G in many places, but there's plenty of places with poor signal or outdated transmitters (like the town I live in). (This is especially noticeable if you're in a train or a bus where you're frequently changing cells.)
I am in Chicago, and it is not uncommon to see the connection (AT&T in this case) drop all the way to Edge inside buildings.
For ages I thought 'E' meant emergency, like it was some sort of backup connection for emergencies that didn't really work at all... this was back in 2008.
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are suggesting we sacrifice the 'net neutrality' principle for a short term gain. Once you let this happen, the telco's will continue with their differential pricing policies citing it has been done before. Thank, but no thanks. I would prefer we rather stick with the net neutrality principles.
I'm suggesting that it's complicated. In all of your replies you are talking about what you want to pay for and what you expect in return. But, this isn't about you. It's about hundreds of millions of the poorest people on Earth. If you went on tour of India to personally tell a few tens of thousands of them that because free Facebook access would set a bad precedent (which you are totally right about, btw) they shou…
I'm from India.
Facebook access isn't like Polio vaccination. Poor people in India worry more about food than Facebook/Internet access. Even if they were given internet access, Most don't know how to read and write. Those capable of spending around 2000 rupees on a smartphone(lower middle class) can also buy a pre paid internet pack for an affordable price. And already do.
If you want to see the real innovation happening in countries like India to make Internet accessible to every one look at : http://www.saankhyalabs.com/ Who are working towards using wasted tv bandwidth for internet.
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#86What is Facebook? Looks like some website a ten year old boy coded.
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#87Do Facebookers never venture outside of cities? Because maybe the UK is weird, but getting 2G even in developed areas isn't that uncommon for me. Sure there's 4G in cities and 3G in many places, but there's plenty of places with poor signal or outdated transmitters (like the town I live in). (This is especially noticeable if you're in a train or a bus where you're frequently changing cells.)
There's plenty of people who commute towns and cities to Facebook London :)
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#88This would help me too, as a first-worlder: I often use T-mobile's free global data roaming, which is super-nice to have, but capped to 2G speeds (128kbps). It becomes quite clear that some sites' designers have never tested their functionality at 128kbps...
Especially sites that hide content until all CSS and fonts are loaded... SO ANNOYING.
1+ from me! Its so friggin frustrating. I remember back in the days I had a 14.4k modem for reading news articles. I could read the article almost immediately, even if it took minutes to load some of the images.
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#89Do Facebookers never venture outside of cities? Because maybe the UK is weird, but getting 2G even in developed areas isn't that uncommon for me. Sure there's 4G in cities and 3G in many places, but there's plenty of places with poor signal or outdated transmitters (like the town I live in). (This is especially noticeable if you're in a train or a bus where you're frequently changing cells.)
This comment thread makes me feel spoiled - I used to live in Sweden where my operator (Three) didn't have a 2G network, now I live in Japan where all the 2G networks are long-gone. Right now I'm visiting Australia where by far the best coverage is on Telstra's NextG 3G network (I'm 80 km away from the nearest supermarket yet am getting 6 MBit down on NextG with an antenna on the roof).
I haven't seen 2G in a LONG time
Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India
#90I'd be shocked if I learned they didn't steal this idea from Google. Not sure why downvoted. Google has had hobbled networks like this for a long time, for exactly the same reason.
Probably being downvoted for using the word "steal". It has a negative connotation where there should not be one.
I didn't mean it negatively. It's a brilliant idea and worth copying.