Facebook did the census of the population of 23 countries on the planet using the artificial intelligence that it has active at the moment, but also satellite images of the respective countries. We are talking here about 23 countries that the Facebook company considers to have a very low internet penetration rate among the population, so we are mainly talking about countries from the 3rd world, the one that Facebook wants to conquer.
Facebook has made it a mission to bring high-speed internet connections to developing countries, mainly those in Africa and Asia. Those from Facebook believe that there are the next billion users of its social network, but only if they will have internet connections fast and cheap enough to be able to access the website of the American company.
Facebook created a vast project to analyze the density of people in the populated areas of the 23 countries analyzed and discovered that most live at a maximum of 63 KM from cities. We are talking here about 99% of the population of the respective countries, and if Facebook manages to cover the respective areas with the Internet, it has hundreds of millions of potential users who could create accounts on the network.
Facebook did the census of the population of 23 countries
Facebook wants to use, of course, satellites to cover with internet the areas that do not have such coverage, the costs being lower than the revenues generated by adding several hundred million users. Facebook knows very well that its social network can only grow up to a certain point, and then all the excited analysts will start criticizing the company and the share price will seriously decrease.
Facebook has so many points from which it collects information about people on the planet, that it is able to obtain any kind of information it wants, whenever it wants. With their help, he managed to do this census for 23 countries on the planet, Facebook already trying to provide internet there with the help of drones, but for now he only managed to make them fly without crashing, but nothing more.
Facebook will most likely invest several billion dollars in its project to bring the Internet to the underprivileged areas of the planet, and no one can stop it. Absolutely no one knows how much Facebook will earn from this project, but based on what they see now, it seems that there is a great interest in bringing the Internet to people who have barely bought phones that surf on it.