Zuckerberg: Facebook 'Working On' Drones And Lasers, Increasing Global Internet Access

Barcelona, Spain (CBS SACRAMENTO) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social media giant is still planning to "build drones, satellites and lasers" to deliver online content, but he stressed that Google's sci-fi projects won't help connect the world.

Speaking Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Zuckerberg followed up on last year's announcement that Facebook's Connectivity Lab was developing drones, satellites and lasers to "deliver the internet to everyone, CNET reports.

Zuckerberg said his focus is the Facebook-supported nonprofit Internet.org, but high-tech tools are still in the works.

"We're working on it," Zuckerberg said. "When we have that stuff, the goal is to form the same type of partnerships we have today with our partners to give people more tools to connect. Some of the technology we have today isn't cost effective... just because we're working on plans and satellites doesn't mean that is the type of stuff that will do it. Over the next five to 10 years, there will be a lot of innovation."

He said sci-fi ideas such as Google's Project Loon balloons and Project Titan drones aren't the tools for bringing internet access to billions of people, instead, regular carriers and network technology will accomplish the connectivity goal of Internet.org.

"People like talking about that kind of stuff because it's sexy, but it's not the big bit," Zuckerberg said of such departures from networks delivered by plain old cell phone towers and fiber-optic lines. "That's at the fringe of the real work that's going on. Ninety percent of the people in the world already live within range of the network."

Zuckerberg said he'd "love to do more" with rival Google to bring the world's population online, calling the search engine an "important tool" in past internet growth moves.