Free Facebook Finally Comes to American Mobile Phones [telecom]

Free Facebook, [which is common in global markets, is] Finally Coming to American Mobile Phones

By VINDU GOEL DECEMBER 24, 2013

For years, Facebook has been cutting deals with telecom carriers in developing countries like India and the Philippines to offer free Facebook access to cellphone customers using simple phones with no data plans.

Now, for the first time, Americans will be able to get free Facebook, too, even if they don't have a mobile data plan. (Isn't that what everyone wanted for Christmas this year?)

In January, GoSmart Mobile, a little-known low-cost prepaid service from T-Mobile US, will begin bundling free access to Facebook's social network and instant-messaging service with all of its mobile plans, including a basic $25-a-month unlimited voice plan. The service is primarily aimed at smartphones that run Apple's iOS or Google's Android software, but it will also work on the cheaper, more basic devices known as feature phones.

For GoSmart, which is sold primarily through independent shops in urban areas, free Facebook is a way to differentiate itself from other prepaid cellular brands - including the more upscale offerings that T-Mobile sells under its own brand and through its MetroPCS unit.

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