Mark Zuckerburg announced earlier this month that he was going to make extensive layoffs at the company, reducing the size of the company by a 13%which represents a reduction of more than 11,000 employees. Well, we already know which department is affected; the one of Facebook Connectivity.
The poor financial results that the company has been obtaining in recent years have led it to take drastic measures and leave workers with a high level of qualification on the street. Thus, when its tenth anniversary was to be celebrated in 2023, the American businessman has decided to close lines in Meta Connectivity.
Zuckerberg is focused on virtual reality, although so far it seems not to have given very good results. To this we must add that their advertising business on social networks does not work, since the competition from companies like Apple is really fierce.
Thus, Meta Connectivity will be divided into two important groups within the company itself: ‘Infrastructure’ Y ‘Core Products’. One of those who remains on the staff is the director of Meta Connectivity, Dan Rabinovitsj, who will now have to transfer to another department.
More about Meta’s ‘Infrastructure’
Meta’s ‘Infrastructure’ team is in charge of areas such as submarine cabling. A giant submarine cable in Africa to connect Angola, southeastern Nigeria, the Seychelles and the Comoros to offer 5G connectivity and broadband between Southeast Asia and this area.
The Apricot is a wire 12,000 kilometers that will tour Asia, while the Bifrost Y Threw out will connect Singapore with the west coast of the US, increasing transpacific capacity by 70%. It is anticipated that the project 37,000 kilometers of cable see the light on 2024.
In all there are 400 submarine cables in the world that are responsible for voice and Internet connections between countries, Indonesia being the potential market for Facebook.
The disappearance of Meta Connectivity will not affect the company’s participation in Telecom Infra Project (TIP)founded in 2016 and which collaborates in the development of open and disaggregated standards for different telecommunications technologies.
The origins of Connectivity
Meta Connectivity emerged in 2013 to develop connection technologies really innovative like solar powered drones and fiber laying robots, and even low earth orbit satellites. In this way, the Facebook phenomenon was brought to companies and to more users around the world, in remote areas where there was no Internet access as such.
The challenges set by Facebook to launch Meta Connectivity were: improve coverage, reduce the cost of the service, and increase relevance with interesting content for the community as a partner technological.
In 2021 alone, Meta Connectivity had made it easier to access faster Internet services to 300 million people.
