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Facebook Today introduced new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook optimized for mobile devices. The service is now available in 50 mobile operators in 45 countries including India. In India, the 0.facebook.com is available on Reliance mobile and Videocon mobile networks with zero data charges. This means users need not to pay for accessing Facebook from Reliance and Videocon mobile networks.

According to Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley, mobile Internet and social services are the most growing areas of the technology industry. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking site with more than 100 million people actively using Facebook from their mobile device and with more than 200 mobile operators in 80 countries offering Facebook Mobile service.

Browsing Facebook through mobile phones is costly in some areas like India and users have to pay more for data uses for accessing Facebook site, as well due to insufficient GPRS speed, the site takes too long to load and to overcome from this, Facebook developers comes with 0.facebook.com.

0.facebook.com includes all the key features of standard Facebook mobile site, m.facebook.com with just one little difference, Images. Users view any photos on Facebook if he wants but for this operation, regular data fees will apply. Other features like update status, view News Feed, like or comment on posts, send and reply to messages, or write on friends’ Wall remains the same as a standard Facebook User interface.

In India user can experience 0.facebook.com on Reliance and Videocon mobile networks for free of cost. People will only pay for data charges when they view photos or when they leave 0.facebook.com to browse other mobile sites, notification page will appear to confirm that user will be charged if he want to leave 0.facebook.com.