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Meta shuts down its Connectivity division after nearly a decade

Meta’s shuttering its Connectivity arm almost 10 years after launching the initiative, according to a report from Light Reading. Meta Connectivity (formerly Facebook Connectivity) launched in 2013 with the goal of getting more people online so they could use the company’s social networks. The TIP is a group of telecom companies, service providers, and connectivity stakeholders that helps promote the development of new telecom infrastructure.