Telefonica Offers Mobile Facebook Service

Telefónica has inked a gloabal agreement with internet social networking site, Facebook to integrate access to FacebookÃ's mobile service and applications from all of TelefónicaÃ's mobile portals. This agreement will expand the current relationship between the companies in the UK into a worldwide agreement.

Incorporation into the agreement will take place in two stages, both for Europe and for Latin America. The first stage includes Ireland, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. The second encompasses Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Central American countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Every participating country may include a link in the browsing menu of its mobile handsets to Facebook's mobile service, allowing customers to send digital content (photos and videos) through integrated MMS services (currently, more than 24 million pictures are uploaded to Facebook each day).

Posted to the site on 6th October 2008