Facebook ‘Acqui-Hires’ Community Cellular Network Provider Endaga

The founders of Endaga, which makes boxes that enable community cellular networks, announced in a blog post that they were joining Facebook and disbanding the company.

CEO Lance Condray and co-founders Kashif Ali, Kurtis Heimerl and Shaddi Hasan wrote:

In 2012, in partnership with a local primary school, we set up our first community cellular network in Papua, Indonesia. It was just a box tied to a tree in the center of town, but we saw firsthand the impact that the system had on that rural community and, more broadly, how important it is to overcome barriers to connectivity access.