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Join CNET for a live blog of Mark Zuckerberg's opening keynote address from the 2014 Mobile World Congress on February 24 at 9 a.m. PT, where he will be joined by technology journalist David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World." CNET will be there live on site to bring you news updates, photos, and running commentary from our team of expert editors. You can also follow @CNET on Twitter for the latest social commentary. Check out our full coverage at http://reviews.cnet.com/mobile-world-congress.

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Kirkpatrick: "Is your board completely cool with that?"

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:22:38 PM
Zuckerberg: "Yeah, they're on our board because they believe in our mission."

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:22:50 PM
Next question: What kind of trajectory will this follow? How long will it take before everyone can have "basic services."

av Tim Stevens redigert av Carrie Mihalcik 2/24/2014 5:23:07 PM
Zuckerberg: "I hope that we can prove that the model works, and then get to the place to work with a larger number of carrier partners within the next two or three years." Pretty sure we've heard this one before.

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:23:38 PM
av stephen.shankland via CNET 2/24/2014 5:23:46 PM
"This is a long-term thing for us..." But, he hopes to do well better than a billion people over the next five years.

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:24:26 PM
Back to the Whatsapp acquisition again. Kirkpatrick is asking whether the board was into the cost.

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:24:38 PM
Zuckerberg: "There's two pieces to think about: the first is the company by itself and what it's going to be worth, and then there's the strategic value of what we can do together."

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:25:10 PM
"Free Facebook" is a pretty common offer with Australian carriers and Australia is not a slow moving data user. Is it used that way in a many other Western nations too? That said, Australia uses data caps to restrict usage, so 'Free' anything is attractive when there are limits to worry about.

av seamus.byrne 2/24/2014 5:25:25 PM
He thinks that the company is worth $19B on its own, even without the partnership options.

av Tim Stevens redigert av Carrie Mihalcik 2/24/2014 5:25:33 PM
"Then the question is why were we excited to do this together." Zuckerberg is again saying about the internet.org angle, which he believe will help. Being a part of Facebook, he says, means they can really focus on adding more people.

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:26:30 PM
"What we envision for carriers, is basically a model that can help them get more subscribers and connect more people."

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:27:18 PM
av stephen.shankland via CNET 2/24/2014 5:27:50 PM
Kirkpatrick is now asking for more specific information about efficiencies that can be gained to reduce cost.

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:28:18 PM
You know what's a very basic text-based service? SMS. But boy are carriers in love with making piles of cash by charging for it. They did give it away for free when it first appeared, though...

av seamus.byrne via CNET 2/24/2014 5:28:30 PM
Zuckerberg says there are three aspects, with the first being to decrease the cost of the internet infrastructure. Basically, hardware and the necessary equipment to run it.

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:28:55 PM
Second is to increase data efficiency, so that services need less data, he says.

av Tim Stevens redigert av Carrie Mihalcik 2/24/2014 5:29:04 PM
Finally is increasing the efficiency of the up-sell. He says there's a 10x improvement to be made on all three tiers.

av Tim Stevens via CNET 2/24/2014 5:29:31 PM
Regarding the first point, Zuckerberg says that more spectrum availability would help, along with reduced costs of smartphones. Kirkpatrick references the $25 Mozilla smartphone that was announced today.

av Tim Stevens redigert av Carrie Mihalcik 2/24/2014 5:30:02 PM

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