Facebook has already squeezed almost all the juice from the satiated Western services and now increasingly pays attention to developing countries. But sometimes it's hard to understand what life really is like, say, in India, without modern Western technologies. That's why Facebook introduces an initiative called "2G Tuesday", in which all wishing employees of the company artificially limit the speed of the Internet.
Slow Internet does not necessarily mean long-loaded applications and web pages. Well-designed sites will work well even with a small width of the Internet channel. Facebook has created an Internet.org project that will allow residents of developing countries to get free access to highly optimized sites. In order for the company's employees to feel what it's like to use the slow Internet in the modern world, "2G Tuesdays" are organized. However, the new initiative will not only show how slowly the 2G connection works, but it will also allow the American company to boast of its achievements in optimizing the loading of websites.
For information: the best 2G-connection provides a data transfer rate of up to 1 megabit per second, with 3G speed closer to 6 megabits per second, and 4G speed is up to 15 megabits per second. By the way, the average speed of Internet access in the US is 11 megabits per second, which is not so much for such a technologically advanced nation.
Unfortunately (or fortunately?), The name "2G Tuesdays" does not quite reflect the reality. If employees and decide to participate in this initiative - it is not necessary - the speed of the Internet connection will be limited in just one hour. But you have to work at work, do not you?
Based on the materials of Popular Mechanics
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