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- Facebook is building a "hardware prototype testing facility" to test experimental communications hardware in the New Mexico desert.
- Earlier this year, Facebook abandoned plans to build autonomous drones that would supply wireless internet to the developing world.
- But Federal Communications Commission filings seen by Business Insider indicate Facebook hasn't given up on hardware connectivity and continues to actively test in the US.
- Expanding the global population of people with access to the internet will be essential for the 2.3 billion-user social network's growth in years to come.
Facebook may have ended its secretive internet-drone project — but that doesn't mean its attempts to build experimental communications hardware are over.
Though Aquila might have flown away, facebook isn't done with hardware in the telecom space. I wonder how this will articulate with the Telecom Infrastructure Project they triggered a while ago.