Facebook executives have long made it clear that they want everyone on the planet to use their social network. If they have to spend time and money to accelerate wireless performance to help make that happen, they will.

As of this week, they have.

On Sunday, Facebook took the wraps off its Telecom Infra Project (TIP), which is tasked with accelerating the development of telecommunications networking hardware.

Taking a page from its earlier Open Compute Project effort for data centers, Facebook is joining forces with Intel, Nokia and several telecommunications companies, including Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, to share designs and technological advances for open source hardware and software.

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