Did you receive the Unitel notification about Facebook Zero? What does that change in your life?

For those who read the title and said that it will not change anything in their life, then they should not be part of the approximately 2.2 million Angolan users currently registered on Facebook.

Now, regarding those who identified with the title of the article and received the notification of the Unitel, here's what changes ...

The early years of Facebook Zero

In 2012, Unitel announced that it would join Facebook Zero, a tool that the team from the largest social network makes available to “less wealthy” countries so that users can access Facebook even without credits (balance, data…). Of course, the tool has limitations and the main one is the fact that we are unable to reproduce the multimedia elements (images, videos, audios).

Since then, to access Facebook Zero, the user had to make it clear that he wanted to access the free version: 0.facebook.com; o.facebook.com; O.facebook.com; zero.facebook.com.

Anyone who did not do the above (using the Unitel network), on a smartphone for example, the social network redirected to the mobile version (not free of the site).

And now?

Now Unitel (or Facebook, or the two companies simultaneously) seems to have changed the strategy. If you try to sign in to Facebook on your smartphone, using the Unitel network, you will receive a notification indicating that you are using the “free” summer and that you can change to the standard version whenever you want, being aware that you will spend your balance.

The same goes for using the Facebook application using the Unitel network, in recent days we received a notification that we are not spending any money unless we decide to open a media element.

Simply put, Unitel (and Movicel, now), thus leave the default option for users not to spend balance whenever they have access to Facebook, saving precious data.

Curiosity forces us to ask: who implemented this change, Unitel or Facebook?