deal adds 70 million mobile subscribers to Facebook’s addressable base

A lot of Facebook’s future subscriber growth hinges on how well it does in markets outside of the U.S., and on non-smartphone devices; and today a deal was announced that looks like it could help the social network take a big step in that direction. The Myriad Group, which develops services for feature phones, says it has teamed up with Facebook to extend its service on mobile devices in the Middle East, Indonesia and Malaysia — specifically in deals involving the mobile carriers Celcom in Malaysia, Indosat in Indonesia and Mobily in Saudi Arabia. The company says that deal adds 70 million mobile subscribers to Facebook’s addressable base.

This is something new.Had no idea that even mobile users of facebook are so many world wide well facebook is just too popular.