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Facebook’s Internet.org Delivers Free Internet to Colombia

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  • January 19, 2015, 5:48 pm PST
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Facebook’s Internet.org has launched a free Internet application in Colombia as part of a drive to bring developing markets online. Colombia is the first nation in Latin America and the fourth in the world to receive the new Internet.org service, in partnership with local mobile phone provider Tigo, but the aim is to push the app globally. The mobile app, aimed at low income and rural users, offers more than a dozen tools via the Android operating system…

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It's ColOmbia not ColUmbia Eliot Lear  –  Jan 21, 2015 10:00 AM

Right in the body, wrong in the title.

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Re: It's ColOmbia not ColUmbia Admin  –  Jan 21, 2015 4:22 PM

Corrected. Thank you.

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