LTE the answer to exceptionally growing mobile data traffic

Aoun Muhammad

The data revenues of cellular mobile operators (CMOs) reached Rs47 billion during the year under review, showing a growth of 47.4% YoY. The data traffic has escalated by 19.3% overall in the telecom sector and 40% in voice traffic due to increased subscriptions and competitive bundle offers provided by the cellular services in Pakistan. These cellular companies have taken notice of the explosion of social apps usage in Pakistan and are offering lucrative offers that include daily, weekly and monthly plans for internet usage, which is also a major contributor to data traffic. Consumers are moving from voice call trend towards to mobile data trend because of apps such as Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter.

There has also been a substantial increase in the imports of mobile handsets worth US $544 million, an indication of the consumers opting for Smartphones with features like email, instant messaging, video and voice calls. The consumers are opting for Smartphones with smart apps to ease their lives on the go and to keep themselves updated with global trends. A Smartphone also provides a window for the consumer to mix their social and business activities. These Smartphones at a time were costly to obtain, but now telecommunication companies, banks and manufacturers are providing discounts and installment offers with 0% markup that make obtaining a Smartphone easy.

The aggregate effect of increase in subscriptions, bundle offers, internet packages, social apps, email and smartphones have created an entire segment of mobile data traffic that is worth monitoring and it because of such factors networks are looking in to 3G and 4G networks. This will not only be a source of revenue for the cellular companies but will also generate employment in the economy, contributing positively towards Pakistan’s GDP.

In lieu of this GPRS/edge supported network, Pakistan has entered in an era of Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWN) commonly known as 3G and 4G networks. These NGWNs are going to innovative all services across a national platform, including but not limited to financial, business, information, social, and education and entertainment services. In addition to these, there will be superior voice communication and faster bandwidth will make video calls possible. Having a 3G network is a big step for Pakistan, as it means faster internet than Edge/GPRS services, clearer voice calls and a superior experience in mobile finance, entertainment, education, social and business services.

However, Fourth Generation LTE networks will revolutionize the entire process of mobile payments and banking. It will also provide superior voice call quality; the download speed will be faster and video quality clearer. One of the leading telecom operators Warid Telecom has recently launched LTE services in Pakistan and became the first operator to transform from 2G to LTE technology. This transformation will help ease the data traffic being generated from social and business apps but will also update and revolutionize the entire system and lifestyle of Pakistan. The network will be ten times faster and more responsive than a 2G or 3G network as the LTE technology is designed to reduce latency. Video chats and conferences will facilitate social and business lives of a consumer. Introduction of LTE by Warid will also create an influx of investment as software companies will begin to develop apps that are facilitated by LTE networks, which will also generate employment.

In short, our lives will be hard to picture without Next Generation Mobile Networks in the coming future. The introduction of LTE is going to revolutionize and uplift the entire social, economic and financial state of affairs in Pakistan. Pakistan can infact boost its ideas and conceptualization of progress with the help of LTE and in few years make these concepts a reality. These Networks can act as a catalyst that will bridge the development gap between Pakistan and First World Countries, if utilized accurately.

The author of this article is a renowned publicist with a penchant for information technology and corporate sector.

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Facebook Partners with Telenor to Launch Internet.org in Pakistan

Facebook, in collaboration with Telenor Pakistan, is launching its internet.org initiative in Pakistan tomorrow, we have checked. Official launch will be made at an event planned for tomorrow where high-ups from Telenor and Facebook will be announcing their plans about internet.org in Pakistan.

For those who don't know, Facebook's internet.org is a global initiative where selected internet or selected websites are made available to users for free. Internet.org is mainly aimed for developing markets where devices and data rates are beyond the affordability of commoners.

Facebook partners with telecom companies, content providers, to make these selected websites available to their consumers. Internet.org, which is currently available in six countries, is aiming to reach at least 100 countries by the end of next year.

Telenor users can expect around 20 websites to be available for free browsing

With tomorrow's launch, Pakistan will become seventh country where Internet.org will be available for masses. Facebook's contract with Telenor will not be exclusive in nature, and hence other operators will also be allowed to join the program.

While we don't have confirmed details, Telenor users can expect around 20 websites to be available for free browsing.

Pakistan currently has over 14 million 3G/4G users, while this number is expected to cross 30 million with-in next eighteen month.

Michael Foley, Telenor's CEO, in a recent interview with ProPakistani had hinted about its partnership with Facebook. Telenor CEO had said that his company will be looking for ways to attract customers towards internet.

Internet activists, on the other hands, criticize that internet.org violates net neutrality norms as not all of the internet is made available for free. Instead, certain websites, which of course include Facebook, are allowed for free while rest of the internet is charged as per usual rates.

Critics say that internet.org is intentionally or unintentionally killing the rest of internet as only selected internet or selected opinion/ideas are bombarded that can be dangerous in the long run, especially because not everyone can join the program.

All publishers can apply to become part of internet.org program, however, not everyone is accepted as they have to follow certain rules/guidelines even if they have to compromise with quality of the content.

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Facebook is Planning to Become a News Platform

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Facebook users might soon start seeing Facebook hosted news content from major publishers directly in the news feed. The social network is reportedly in talks with publishers including Buzzfeed, the New York Times, National Geographic and several others to host their content on a new Facebook feature called Instant Articles. Instant Articles will bring complete news, articles and videos to a user’s news feed.

Many publishers generally post links on to the network which has become an important source of online traffic for them. Accessing that content is generally a slow process that Facebook wants to improve with this feature. Instant Articles will bring a new feature to the social network that will allow news articles to be hosted on Facebook’s platform. This should, in turn, allow decreased loading times and increased engagement for articles that users view using the social network’s mobile platform.

The new feature is said to begin start rolling out this month.

Facebook users are soon going to experience Facebook hosted news content from major publishers directly in the news feed

Content publishers are cautious about having their content hosted by Facebook directly, but Facebook has reportedly been trying to negotiate a positive response from them.

“It’s not just about the bottom line,” said an executive of one publisher that has had discussions with Facebook. “Publishers will still want to defend other aspects of the business”. The social network is promising some publishers, up to 100 percent of their ad revenue from the articles. The report adds that content publishers do not need to pay the social network for hosting their content and is offering the publishers to keep all the revenue earned from ad sales on the hosted pages.

Select publishers who are partnering with Facebook for the project are promised 100% ad revenue

Under the offered revenue scheme, publishers will keep all of the revenue they generate from their ads while the social network will hold on to about 30 percent of the revenue generated through ads from articles that Facebook sells. Facebook is ready to give up some of the revenue so that it can motivate users to spend more time on the social network. Though, this will indirectly increase Facebook’s revenues as it increases its user engagement numbers who would normally head to an external link.

The list of launch partners is yet to be finalised but if deals do not materialise, Instant Articles could see its release date pushed back by a few weeks. The details regarding publisher’s control over their own content and the format of ads that will be employed in Instant Articles is still under question. The report mentions that the information comes from people close to the matter and that “they (Facebook) want to retain control over the user experience, as well as access to data on their readers”.

Source: WSJ, Demanjo

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Facebook Dumps Microsoft Skype for its Own Video Calling Solution

Facebook has launched video calling for Messenger and with that they have made certain that Facebook and Skype’s old relationship is at an end. Skype was dumped by Facebook when it introduced the video calling feature based on its own technology.

Back in 2011, Microsoft and Facebook announced Skype powered video calling for Facebook’s desktop website. The feature received major fanfare and the companies announced they were working on video calling for Messenger. At the time, Mark Zuckerberg said that he had interests that aligned with Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer (in 2011). But it seems that the relationship that was on high and moving towards more and more integration is now coming to an end.

Facebook has not made any announcements regarding the partnership but Facebook’s introduction of voice calling in 2013 was an indication of the declining relationship between the two. Facebook also stopped using Skype for video calls for desktop a few months ago and replaced that with an in-house solution as well.

Facebook has slowly been replacing all of Microsoft’s tech like Skype and Bing with its own solutions

Facebook stated that the Skype-powered video calls required users to install an additional browser plugin so they developed a technology that would make the task much simpler and improve the call performance and video quality. It will also allow Facebook to update and make changes to the video chat more easily.

The cracks that led to the rupture don’t end here as Facebook stopped using Microsoft’s Bing for search results on its social network. Skype’s Community Manager mentioned that Facebook is making a number of changes regarding the way they connect their services with third parties. He gave a list of integrations that will no longer function in Skype starting May. This also includes the ability to message Facebook friends from within Skype which will no longer function.

Microsoft and Facebook had a long history together as Microsoft became a major investor in Facebook in 2007. Microsoft invested $240 million in the young social networking platform.  Now that Facebook is tech giant they do not need to rely on others to provide services like search and calling functionalities. It also went against Facebook’s objective to prevent users from leaving the website for anything. Microsoft declined to comment on the matter but it’s clearly visible that the 8 year old partnership is now coming to an end.

Source GlobalNews, Benzinga

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A Facebook bug stopped users from posting anything with a link

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A new Facebook bug caused major problems for users today, with posts disappearing and new links apparently blocked from posting. The bug only affected posts containing links to content outside of Facebook, but as of press time, it appears to have been at least partially resolved. "An error in our system that helps block bad links on Facebook incorrectly marked some URLs as malicious or inappropriate," said a Facebook spokesperson. "As a result, some existing posts were hidden, while other posts were blocked completely. We’ve resolved the issue and the remaining affected URLs are being unblocked. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused."

The problem seems to have begun last night with issues in Facebook's image-scraping system, which automatically pulls pictures from posted links. The issue was reported in the Facebook developer forums and the ops team promised a fix — but by the next day, the bug had developed to break the system entirely.

As a result of the bug, users attempting to post new links were met with a security warning: "The content you're trying to share contains a link that our security system detected to be unsafe...please remove the link to continue." Some users who click on existing links faced similar warnings, saying the link has been blocked for security reasons. A number of posts containing links also vanished, including dozens from The Verge's own page, although they reappeared intermittently.

Some users encountering the bug took it as selective censorship on Facebook's part — particularly given the large number of posts involving the protests in Baltimore — but there's been no evidence of anything other than a system-wide technical glitch. Media outlets, which have come to rely on Facebook for an increasing share of traffic, seem to have been the users most seriously affected by the glitch.

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Facebook to Match up to $2 Million Support Nepal Earthquake Survivors

People are coming together to support those affected by the earthquake that struck Nepal and impacted the populations of Nepal, India and Bangladesh.

Starting today, people on Facebook will see a message at the top of News Feed with an option to donate to International Medical Corps, which has emergency response teams operating mobile medical units to deliver critically needed medical care and medicines to the regions hardest hit by the earthquake. To do this, we are using our Donate feature, where people can donate directly to IMC to support their relief efforts on the ground.

Facebook will match every dollar donated up to $2 million. Facebook’s matching funds will be distributed to local relief and rescue organizations working to provide immediate and ongoing relief. Please go to facebook.com/nepalearthquakesupport to learn more.

In addition to launching Donate, Safety Check – a simple and easy way to say you’re safe and check on others – was activated on Saturday in large parts of Nepal as well as areas in Bangladesh, India and Bhutan. Since then, millions of people have been marked safe and tens of millions of people were notified that someone they know has been marked safe. Read more information on Safety Check here.

During times of crisis, we have seen people turn to Facebook to learn about what’s happening, share their experiences and support one another.

By offering tools to help people donate to support those in the affected areas and check on loved ones, we’re hopeful that together we can promote safety and help urgent resources reach those who need them. Via Facebook Newsroom

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Facebook Says Your News Feed Will Get Friendlier

The company announced key changes to what content it displays in your News Feed

Facebook said Tuesday it will increase the amount of content from close friends appearing in users' News Feeds.

The social network announced three key changes to the content displayed in News Feeds, saying it was responding to feedback from users. "As more people and pages are sharing more content," product manager Max Eulenstein and user experience researcher Lauren Scissors detailed in a statement, "we need to keep improving News Feed to get this balance right."

For starters, people who don't have much content to see will start seeing, well, more content. Facebook said it would lift restrictions on seeing multiple posts from the same source appearing in a row.

For users with more connections who find that they are missing important posts from friends—often in favor of media or corporate posts—Facebook said it would ensure that they would see more by showing those photos, status updates, links or videos higher in the News Feed, making them less likely to glance over it.

And in another change that is likely to draw support from users—and potentially dismay from advertisers—Facebook said it will pull back on the prevalence and prominence of posts about your friends liking or commenting on others' posts. The stories will either appear lower in the News Feed or not at all.

Facebook warned that the changes may cut into traffic to some pages, saying the "impact of these changes on your page's distribution will vary considerably depending on the composition of your audience and your posting activity. In some cases, post reach and referral traffic could potentially decline."

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Zuckerberg’s next selection for the Facebook book club is all about dealing with China

Next up on Mark Zuckerberg's reading list: former Goldman Sachs CEO and US Treasury secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s Dealing with China, the eighth selection in the Facebook CEO's book club.

Here's what Zuckerberg said about the pick

Over the last 35 years, China has experienced one of the greatest economic and social transformations in human history. Hundreds of millions of people have moved out of poverty. By many measures, China has done more to lift people out of poverty than the whole rest of the world combined.

I've been personally interested as a student of Chinese culture, history and language. I'm looking forward to reading Paulson's perspective on what China's rise means for the world

Zuckerberg has famously taken a personal interest in China, which represents an enormous opportunity for Facebook—except for the fact that it is currently blocked by the Chinese government. If Paulson can pass along any lessons about how to crack the market, then choosing his book will have been a very wise choice.

Paulson recently told Quartz in an interview that he wrote the book because he feels "very strongly that [China] is by far the most important bilateral relationship the US has," and because he hopes to see a recalibration in American policy toward China. "It's hard to think of a major challenge in the world today—whether it's sustaining economic growth, dealing with climate change, maintaining peace and stability—that isn't going to be easier if we've got the US and China working together, and that isn't going to be more difficult if we have the US and China working at cross-purposes," he said.

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Facebook brings back the away message in a new mobile experiment

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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, before Facebook created the world's first billion-person social network, many of us stayed in touch through instant messaging. Services like AIMand ICQ let us stay in touch not just through chat, but through away messages — tiny fragments letting friends know what you were up to while away from your keyboard. (The indispensable YourAwayMessage offers a representative sample.) Today, Facebook is bringing those fragments back with what it's calling the "sidebar status" — a kind of away message you can post in the sidebar of its mobile apps for iOS and Android.

The sidebar, which you bring up by swiping right in Facebook's flagship app, currently shows your most frequently messaged friends. Starting today, in a test that Facebook is running in Taiwan and Australia, users will see short status messages under their friends' names: "making blueberry scones at home," say, or "watching the game at home." (Twitter was once derided as a place where people only posted about what they had for breakfast; the away message was a place where you could share your breakfast without shame.)

Messages can be accompanied with a little picture icon; Facebook has created dozens to choose from. Your messages show up only in the sidebar — you won't see them in the News Feed, or on your profile — and they expire in 12 hours, or whenever you post a new one. And they come with fairly robust privacy settings: by default, your friends can see them, but you can restrict it in much the same way you can limit access to your profile. Facebook does save your old status messages, but they're visible only to you.

A MORE INTIMATE, EPHEMERAL NEWS FEED

It's not quite right to call these "away" messages, of course, because these days we're never really "away" in the way we were in the era of desktop computing. But sidebar statuses have the same look and feel, and they're intended for the same audience that away messages were: your closest friends. Of course, there was a time when Facebook's main News Feed was for your close friends, too. But over the years, the feed has become more cluttered: with ads, news stories, videos, and distant acquaintances.

Sidebar status messages appear most prominently for your "favorites," a dynamically generated list of friends based on who you message most on Facebook. (You can also pin your favorites to the top, and scroll down to see more distant friends' updates.) "People were having a difficult time staying in touch with their friends and seeing what they're doing on a daily basis," Sue Young, a Facebook product manager, said in an interview. The idea behind the sidebar status, she said, is that "small things would make people feel connected in a big way." She added: "Now when I visit the sidebar, I can get an instant pulse of what all my friends are doing."

Of course, the sidebar isn't exactly prime real estate in Facebook's mobile app. Many users may not even be aware that it exists. But if Facebook rolls out the sidebar status broadly — and Young says she hopes to — I wouldn't be surprised to see people using it more. It's a throwback idea that scratches an itch most of us still have — to tell our closest friends what we're up to, and to hear the same from them. Even if it's only what we had for breakfast.

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Facebook can leave you down in the dumps

A study by the University of Houston, in Texas, has found that constantly comparing oneself to friends, coupled with the amount of time spent on Facebook, might be linked to depression.

"It doesn't mean Facebook causes depression - it means that spending lots of time on Facebook and comparing oneself to others tends to go hand-in-hand with depression," said Mai-Ly Steers, a researcher in the study, a report on which appeared in the journal Social and Clinical Psychology.

Facebook gave information about people's friends that users did not usually have access to, which increased opportunities for people to compare themselves to others - and conclude that they were living shallow, boring lives.

Psychologists have long suggested that there is a link between Facebook and depression.

"What you have," said relationship coach Stephanie Dawson-Cosser, "are hundreds of people telling you all this great news, but in reality it is not all that great."

Izabella Gates, MD of Life Talk, said her organisation was seeing an increasing incidence of depression due to social media, hectic lifestyles and cyber-bullying.

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Rich kids love Instagram, but Facebook is most popular with lower-income youth

In a digital landscape now cluttered with social media platforms and apps, how do young people choose which to use—and why? New research from the Pew Research Center suggests that their choices are influenced by socioeconomic status and combined family income.

The Pew Research Center surveyed US teens aged 13 to 17, asking them a variety of questions about their daily online habits. Not surprisingly, the study concluded that teens are almost constantly using social media: 92% of reported going online daily, and close to 25% categorized their usage as "almost constant."

And while there has been intermittent  hysteria over the past few years about Facebook becoming uncool, the Pew Center also reported that 71% of teens continue to use it—even as the same percentage say they use more than one platform.

Here's where wealth comes into play, according to Pew:

The survey data reveals a distinct pattern in social media use by socio-economic status. Teens from less well-off households (those earning less than $50,000) are more likely than others to say they use Facebook the most: 49% of these teens say they use it most often, compared with 37% of teens from somewhat wealthier families (those earning $50,000 or more).

Of families with a combined income of $100,000 or more, this trend becomes even more prominent, with only 6% separating the Facebook and Instagram users, at 31% and 25% respectively.

These results of course don't show any causal reason why more money would lead to higher Instagram and Spapchat use, or vice versa. But anecdotally, Instagram seems increasingly to be a place where bragging about one's wealth is culturally acceptably, even celebrated. This line of reasoning underpins the entire Rich Kids of Instagram phenomenon, a loose group of young social media one-percenters who revel in their ability to show just how much more money they have than you.

Of course, the big winner in all of this is still Facebook. Lest we forget, a very savvy Mark Zuckerburg acquired Instagram in 2012. Facebook's strategy seems to be, even if you can beat them, it's probably a smart business move to join them anyway. If the results of this latest study are any indication, the social network behemoth's strategy is continuing to pay off.

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Catholic school teacher suspended for gay remarks on Facebook reinstated

A Catholic school teacher suspended after she wrote in a Facebook post that gays "want to reengineer western civ into slow extinction" has been reinstated.

Patricia Jannuzzi was put on administrative leave last month and was asked to disable her Facebook page when her comments drew wide publicity, in part after a school alumnus wrote a critical letter that was shared online by "Thelma & Louise" star Susan Sarandon, who's his aunt.

One of Jannuzzi's posts compared a lesbian relationship to news of Egyptian men being beheaded.

A letter was sent Friday to faculty and staff members at Immaculata High School in Somerville saying Jannuzzi had been reinstated,Gannett New Jersey reported. Monsignor Seamus Brennan, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, said in the letter that Catholic teachers should 

communicate the faith in "a way that is positive and never hurtful."

"Tone and choice of words matter and I trust Mrs. Jannuzzi's stated promise to strive always to teach in a spirit of truth and charity," Brennan wrote.

He cited Jannuzzi's "otherwise good reputation as an educator over 30 years at Immaculata" as a factor.

Jannuzzi's lawyer David Oakley said she was "grateful to the school for engaging in the process." - AP

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Facebook admits it tracks non-users

Social network claims privacy report commissioned by the Belgian privacy watchdog ‘gets it wrong multiple times’ over what Facebook does with user data

Facebook has admitted that it tracked users who do not have an account with the social network, but says that the tracking only happened because of a bug that is now being fixed.

The social network hit out at the report commissioned by the Belgian data protection authority, which found Facebook in breach of European data privacy laws, saying that the report “gets it wrong multiple times in asserting how Facebook uses information”.

“The researchers did find a bug that may have sent cookies to some people when they weren’t on Facebook. This was not our intention – a fix for this is already under way,” wrote Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of policy for Europe in a rebuttal.

Allan listed and responded to eight claims isolated from the report written by researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels.

Some of the claims listed by Facebook are not made in the report, including one that states “there’s no way to opt out of social ads”. The report clearly states that “users can opt-out from appearing in so-called Social Ads”.

“Facebook’s latest press release (entitled “Setting the record straight”) attributes statements to us that we simply did not make,” said authors of the study Brendan Van Alsenoy from the ICRI and Günes Acar from Cosic.

Cookies, tracking and web impressions

Facebook also disputed some of the terms the authors of the report use, such as their definition of “tracking”.

“Facebook does receive standard ‘web impressions’, or website visit information, when people visit sites with our plugins or other integrations. The authors misleadingly call this ‘tracking’,” said Allan. “Unlike many companies, we explain how we will use this information and the controls we honour and offer.”

“Cookies tell us when people are logged into Facebook. That’s why you don’t have to enter your name and password every time you visit, and so we can alert you in case someone else is trying to log in as you from an unknown computer,” said Allan.Allan also wrote that Facebook is transparent about Facebook’s use of cookies for security, personalisation and ads.

But he also reinforced the point that “Facebook is offered free of charge, and we do that by showing ads we think are relevant to people’s interests”, which is also the funding method used to support many other services including those from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and media organisations.

The Belgian Privacy Commission is expected to decide whether to act on the report on 29 April.

Facebook is under increasing pressure outside of Ireland, where the company is headquartered and regulated by the Irish data protection authority. A task force of data regulators from Belgium, France, Spain and Italy has been set up to look at Facebook’s privacy practices, while the Flemish, Dutch and European parliaments have also called for closer looks at the company.

“We deliberately chose to open up our findings to public scrutiny so that anyone can check our sources and methodology. People who are interested can compare the ‘claims’ Facebook attributes to our report with its actual contents. We still remain open to additional comments and suggestions, including from Facebook, in relation to our actual findings,” said the authors of the report.

• Class action privacy lawsuit filed against Facebook in Austria

• Leave Facebook if you don’t want to be spied on, warns EU

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Austria court brought against Facebook privacy case

Some 25,000 users - led by Austrian law graduate Max Schrems - accuse Facebook of violating European privacy laws in the way it collects and forwards data.

The case has been brought against Facebook's European HQ in Dublin, which handles accounts outside US and Canada.

Facebook's lawyers have argued for the case to be dismissed.

They presented a list of procedural objections at a court hearing in Vienna on Thursday.

Mr Schrems - a campaigner for data protection - said he brought the claim to stop what he calls mass surveillance by the social networking site.

The legal action claims privacy laws are breached in the way Facebook monitors users when they activate the site's "like" buttons.

It also alleges Facebook co-operated with Prism, a surveillance system launched in 2007 by the US National Security Agency.

The case - which involves more than 900 UK-based users of Facebook - includes a compensation claim of about €500 ($539; £362) per person.

The court will issue a written decision in the next few weeks on whether it can handle the case, the BBC's Bethany Bell reports from Vienna.

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Facebook goes Down World wild

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People are now able to see This Massage on their Account

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