You are in some very remote place. There are no cyber cafes around. You can’t even access neton your mobile, because it doesn’t have GPRS connection. But, you are dying to check your Facebook account. You wish there was some magic which would let you do so. Well, someone has responded to your wish.
U2opia , a Singapore-based software applications developer, has developed a technology which allows users to access Facebook without GPRS connection . The technology works on any handset. The technology is called Unstructured Supplementary Data (USSD) . This technology is used by telecom service providers to give service alerts after say a user makes a call or uses GPRS service.It is also used to provide menu based services to users.
U2opia has tied up with India’s leading telecom service provider Airtel to offer these services. Airtel users can dial *325# or *fbk# on non-qwerty mobile phones to access facebook on their mobile. Users are allowed toupdate their status through this service for free. But, for full feature application, which enables viewing news feeds, commenting on or liking news feed stories, posting on friends’ walls, confirming friend requests,viewing notifications and findingas well as adding friends, Airtel will charge Rs. 1 per day.
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