BARCELONA: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has congratulated three Internet service providers for their success with early Internet.org initiatives in six countries where much of the population has never been online.
The dream of an Internet of things could turn into a nightmare for mobile operators, if sloppily written apps or chatty smartmeters were to overload their networks with signaling traffic. To avert such a scenario, a number of operators are backing a new set of network usage guidelines for device manufacturers and app developers.