A few months after rejecting Facebook's Free Basics program, India is trying to define net neutrality. The country's telecom regulator has issued a pre-consultation report that aims to debate the ...

A report released today by activist group Global Voices found that not only does Facebook’s Free Basics violate net neutrality principles, it’s not even very helpful to those who use it. Free Basics, ...

“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 ...

Across the world, efforts to increase internet access are wide-ranging — there is everything from public-private infrastructure development, to community-built mesh networks from Oaxaca to Cape Verde, ...

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 ...

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In a Times of India op-ed, the Facebook founder debunked what he called false claims about the free Web service. UPDATE (12/31): Egypt on Wednesday became the latest country to shut down Facebook's ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...