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No more Facebook Free Basics in India
Posted on: 12/Feb/2016 10:31:54 AM
Following the telecom regulator barring discriminatory pricing of data services, which included a ban on zero-rated products Facebook, pulled the plug on Free Basics in India, a year after its launch in the social networking giant`s largest market outside the US.
TRAI on Monday barred all forms of discriminatory pricing of data services, except in emergency situations and on closed electronic communication networks, or intranets. This also meant that programmes such as Free Basics, a zero-rated service, would not be allowed in India. While Facebook has maintained that Free Basics is designed to connect the unconnected poor, critics say it creates a walled garden of only selected websites or apps, thus violating the concept of net neutrality.
