BENGALURU: Social media firm Facebook is interested in testing internet services through solar-powered plane in India and other telecom connectivity technologies it is developing.

"We are really in development of technologies at connectivity lab. We are not yet launching any pilots. We will in the future, and we are entirely open to launching it in India because there is such a great opportunity in India to connect the unconnected," Facebook Vice President of Internet.org Chris Daniels told PTI.

He said the company is working on alternate internet technologies other than traditional ways of providing connectivity including solar planes and satellites.

The reason why planes are interesting is that you can have solar powered planes that stay very high in the sky and provide connectivity. Plane can have broad area. That plane can be fuelled by the sun, does not need to have generator or physical infrastructure on the ground. That's potentially an attractive way through which we can provide connectivity, he said.

Facebook expects technologies to bring down the cost of internet significantly. Web-based companies including Facebook that provide messenger and internet-based calling service have been at loggerheads with telecom operator as it is cutting in to their revenues.

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