Indian consumers check their mobile telephones at a free Wi-Fi Internet zone in Mumbai. Credit: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images A few months after India banned Facebook's Free Basics platform for ...

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When Facebook launched its Free Basics app aimed at helping people without Internet access, they said that the app would serve as an “on ramp” to using the whole global Internet. But new research by ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Can you help me find a cheap home Internet service? I’m retired and live on a fixed income, and the Internet service I use now is too expensive. — Financially Squeezed Dear Squeezed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — A new program will bring ...

“A sizable portion of the nearly 100 million users who have come online through Internet.org live in Myanmar, where Facebook partnered with local telco Myanma Posts and Telecommunications for the ...

Facebook introduced an app on Thursday that will give mobile phone subscribers in Zambia access to a set of free basic mobile data services—and Facebook. The app is part of Facebook’s Internet.org ...

Free and unimpeded internet access is no longer a convenience or a luxury. It is high time it was made a human right ...