In 2015, Facebook announced with some fanfare the rollout of its “Free Basics” service in India. 1 Partnering with the wireless telecom Reliance, customers that downloaded the Free Basics app onto ...

Indian telecom regulators have reportedly halted Facebook’s “Free Basics” mobile Internet service, formerly known as Internet.org, over net neutrality concerns. The controversial program allows mobile ...

Facebook’s Free Basics only went live across the whole of India last month, but it looks like the company is already concerned that it may be under threat as the Indian telecoms watchdog gears up for ...

Facebook has withdrawn Free Basics from India, days after the country’s telecommunications regulator prohibited the differential pricing of data depending on the content or application that is being ...

India’s telecom regulator Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) has banned differential pricing in the country, thus ending zero-rated and free data services such as Facebook Free Basics. No company can ...