--- description: Facebook and Google compete to bring Internet to underserved countries using drones and balloons title: Facebook Connectivity Lab Plans to Use Drones to Deliver Internet image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3447e0151d7d4609/698683d9e8524b5b8c601a33/1500_facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Facebook Eyes Using Drones to Deliver Internet  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Mar 27, 2014 11:06 PM CUT  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience during a media event at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California March 7, 2013\. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience during a media event at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California March 7, 2013\. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)Robert Galbraith—Reuters  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Mar 27, 2014 11:06 PM CUT Facebook is [friending](https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101322049893211 "undefined") [drones](http://internet.org/press/announcing-the-connectivity-lab-at-facebook "undefined"). The social network’s founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed Thursday that the company’s ambitious plan to bring Internet access to the parts of the world without it will use drones to do. A year after announcing the Internet.org project, Zuckerberg said Facebook’s [Connectivity Lab](http://internet.org/press/announcing-the-connectivity-lab-at-facebook "undefined") is making progress as it works to “build drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to everyone.” The project will do nothing less, he said, than “beam internet to people from the sky.” “Over the past year, our work in the Philippines and Paraguay alone has doubled the number of people using mobile data with the operators we’ve partnered with, helping 3 million new people access the internet,” Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page. “We’re going to continue building these partnerships, but connecting the whole world will require inventing new technology too.” Facebook’s Connectivity Lab could become a major competitor with Google’s Project Loon, which is using helium balloons to beam Internet access down to people below. 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