One year in: How Facebook’s Internet.org Free Basic Services are bringing people online

Facebook is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Internet.org app by hosting a Developer Day at iHub in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, 27 July.

NAIROBI, Kenya, July 27, 2015/ --

• Internet.org brings new users onto mobile networks on average over 50% faster after launching free basic services

• More than half of the people who come online through Internet.org are paying for data and accessing the internet within the first month

• Internet.org users accessed health services more than a million times just in the past month

Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) (http://www.facebook.com) is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Internet.org app (http://www.internet.org) by hosting a Developer Day at iHub (http://www.ihub.co.ke) in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, 27 July.

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Over the last year, Facebook has worked closely with more than a dozen mobile operators across 17 countries to give people access to relevant basic internet services without data charges. Today Internet.org is available to more than a billion people. African countries where Internet.org has been launched include Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Senegal, Zambia, Ghana, Angola and Malawi. - See more at: http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2015/07/facebook-celebrates-one-year.html#sthash.xPIdLjz5.dpuf

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