Facebook’s founding role in the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) may be emphasized less these days than it used to, as the body aims to represent a wide range of operators (some of whom are threatened, in the consumer market, by the social media giant). But the company continues to innovate behind the scenes, facilitating or even developing enabling technologies that could accelerate the roll-out of high quality mobile broadband (supporting Facebook services of course) to the next billion. Facebook has contributed small cell, antenna and backhaul designs to the open networks community and helps to bankroll TIP and the Open Compute Project (OCP), which is also increasingly relevant to telcos as they start to consider migration of their networks to…