The owner of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg was here in Nigeria, Lagos State to oversee the free basic internet service and also to promote Express WiFi.

It was reported that the billionaire was seen walking freely in the streets of Lagos, at Yaba precisely. Though he came here for business.

The major purpose of Zuckerberg's visit is the deployment of ExpressWifi in Lagos by Facebook in collaboration with Coollink, which is a Nigerian ISP and System Integrator based in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano.

The service will be launched this week, although it's already running in some part of lagos such has Ikota Shopping Complex.


WHAT IS EXPRESS WIFI & HOW IT WORKS
ExpressWifi is a new program from Facebook that lets phone owners purchase data from local internet service providers.

You will be able to browse the websites on Free basics for free, but you'll be charged very cheap data rates of N40 for 100MB up to N1,600 for 5GB if you browse other websites. This is only applicable if you're within the Express WiFi coverage.

FULL FACEBOOK EXPRESS WIFI DATA BUNDLES/RATES
» 100MB for N40
Validity: 24hours

» 300MB for N110
Validity: 24hours

» 750MB for N270
Validity: 7days. Read more @ http://www.techpaded.com/facebook-to-launch-express-wifi-enjoy-fr.xhtml