February 12, 2009 by Matt Thomas
Facebook is redoubling its efforts to make the world’s leading social network available on a range of mobile devices by discussing a partnership with Nokia. Nokia are the world’s biggest handset manufacturer, so any deal with them would represent a massive step into the mobile market for Facebook, maintaining, even possibly extending their current meteoric growth rate.
At this point financial terms are unknown, as are the number of Nokia devices that would be included in any deal. The only thing that can be said with any degree of certainty is that talks are ongoing. The two companies have been working at the deal now for several months with Nokia thought to be wavering over whether it should sign up with an established player like Facebook or design and build its own social network from the ground up.
If Nokia were to choose the second option they would have some catching up to do. Facebook’s unique mobile visitors jumped significantly last year from just under two million in January to around seven million by the end of the year. Significantly, this rate of growth began to outpace MySpace’s around the end of last summer, making Facebook officially the best performing mobile social network.
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