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India Bans Facebook’s Free Internet Platform Over Net Neutrality Concerns
India’s national telecom regulator has banned Mark Zuckerberg’s “free” internet endeavour for violating net neutrality. Free Basics, formerly known as Internet.org, was designed to bring free internet to developing countries, but access to websites was restricted to Facebook’s commercial partners, meaning Free Basics users could only visit sites that had…
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Zuckerberg Shocked India Doesn’t Appreciate His Free Internet
The Internet.org “free internet” initiative – now known as Free Basics – is under threat of closure by Indian authorities, but its founder, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, doesn’t get why India isn’t grateful for his efforts. The Time of India reports that the country’s telecoms regulator is putting pressure on Reliance…
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World Wide Web Inventor Says “No” to Internet.org
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web infrastructure for the internet, is vehemently opposed to Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org plan to bring a limited internet to poor countries, an initiative that has long been criticised for violating net neutrality and branded an internet “ghetto”. “When it comes to compromising…
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Internet.org Is a Two-Tiered Ghetto For the Internet’s Poor
A coalition of internet advocacy groups from 31 countries has formed to stand against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s “free” internet project, Internet.org. In an open letter, supported by groups from India, Colombia, Uganda, and Iceland, to name but a few, Internet.org is branded a “walled garden” that keeps the poor…
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Internet.org Gets Trashed by Global Internet Activists
Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire Facebook founder, recently unveiled plans to offer a ‘free’ internet – essentially a sponsored internet portal through which limited filtered content can be viewed – to the world’s poor through his Internet.org endeavour. A group of internet activists from around the world, however, have taken exception…
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Internet.Org, What Is It And Whats Happening?
Internet.org has been in the online news a lot recently, but what is it and why is it in the news? Internet.org is a scheme created by Facebooks Founder Mark Zuckerberg, the aim of which is to provide free internet access to several countries, hopefully reaching at least 5 billion…
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Facebooks’s Internet.org to Bring Internet to Africa
Yet another awesome step forward for global connectivity, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has cemented his last year claim that a specialised team are working on building drones, lasers and satellites to deliver internet to everyone; today at the Mobile World Congress. During his presentation, he spent a substantial amount of…
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Virgin Joining Race To Accessible Internet With “Most Satellites Ever”
Virgin is joining the race to provide internet access everywhere by “creating the world’s largest satellite constellation”. Joining the ranks of Facebook with its internet.org and Google with its Project Loon, Virgin aims to provide high speed internet to “billions”. Virgin founder Richard Branson said in a blog post that…
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Facebook Make a Stand for Equality in Zambia
Everybody deserves equality and it starts by understanding your basic human rights. Facebook and Internet.org are now making a stand for women rights in Zambia with their new app. It gives free internet access for people without a data plan, to access resources like MAMA, WRAPP and Facts For Life by UNICEF. MAMA…
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Facebook Joins GSMA To Become An Active Member Of Wireless Trade Group
Facebook has joined the GSMA, which for short is a group composed of mobile operators and other interested technology partners who work in standardizing and promoting the GSM cellular system. GSMA spokeswoman Claire Cranton told FierceWireless that “Facebook is obviously a significant player in the mobile ecosystem, so a relationship…
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Facebook Acquires ‘Onavo’ To Help Improve Web Efficiency
Data is important, especially when it comes to mobile devices where users are often limited on how much they use per month, how fast they can download that data and of course how much that data costs to transmit. With mobiles these days capable or churning through gigabytes of data…
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