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Free Basics – Facebook Connectivity
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Free Basics offers access to basic online services without data charges. In collaboration with mobile operators, Free Basics allows people to experience the  ...

Why India rejected Facebook's Free Basics
mashable.com
Feb 9, 2016 ... Much ink has been spilled on Facebook's Free Basics program and how it violates the tenets of net neutrality. Mashable has extensively ...

The Rise and Fall… and Rise Again of Facebook's Free Basics: Civil ...
globalmedia.mit.edu
Apr 21, 2020 ... One of the most notorious ones is Facebook's Free Basics initiative. Free Basics is both an application and website that provides free of data ...

'It's digital colonialism': how Facebook's free internet service has ...
www.theguardian.com
Jul 27, 2017 ... Free Basics is a Facebook-developed mobile app that gives users access to a small selection of data-light websites and services. The websites ...

Facebook Loses a Battle in India Over Its Free Basics Program - The ...
www.nytimes.com
Feb 8, 2016 ... Free Basics offers people no-fee access to a text-only mobile version of the Facebook social network, as well as to certain news, health, job and ...

Facebook's Free Basics service has been banned in India - The Verge
www.theverge.com
Feb 8, 2016 ... Facebook's free-but-restricted internet service, Free Basics, has been banned in India after the country's national telecoms regulator ruled that ...

Internet.org - Wikipedia
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"Free Basics" redirects here. It is not to be confused with FreeBASIC. For Facebook's stripped-down zero data charge mobile version, see Facebook Zero.

Facebook's Free Basics violates net neutrality and isn't even that ...
www.theverge.com
Jul 27, 2017 ... With Free Basics, the report claims that Facebook acts essentially just like an ISP and collects users' traffic data. “For users who want to get online ...

Free Basics by Facebook – English
info.internet.org
Free Basics by Facebook provides people with access to useful services on their mobile phones in markets where internet access may be less affordable.

What Happened to Internet.org, Facebook's Grand Plan to Wire the ...
www.wired.com
May 17, 2018 ... It was intended as a call to action for the tech industry: Facebook was going to help get people online. Everyone should be entitled to free basic ...

Facebook's Free Basics program ended quietly in Myanmar last year ...
techcrunch.com
May 2, 2018 ... Free Basics, an initiative under Internet.org, is an app that offers users in developing markets a “free” Facebook-centric version of the broader ...

Facebook's Free Basics Is an African Dictator's Dream – Foreign Policy
foreignpolicy.com
Oct 27, 2016 ... Facebook's Free Basics Is an African Dictator's Dream. The tech giant's no-frills app gives governments a version of the internet they can ...

Facebook has finally launched Free Basics in Nigeria — Quartz Africa
qz.com
May 11, 2016 ... Social network giant, Facebook, has launched its Free Basics service in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country—and its biggest market on the ...

Facebook is no charity, and the 'free' in Free Basics comes at a price
theconversation.com
Jan 11, 2016 ... Free Basics is the rebranded Internet.org, a Facebook operation where by partnering with local telecoms firms in the developing world the firm ...

India Considers Regulating Facebook's Internet.org Free Basics ...
fortune.com
Jan 22, 2016 ... Facebook's crusade to bring basic free Internet to people in lower-income countries without web access reached India in February 2015. In a ...

The surprising truth about Facebook's Internet.org
www.computerworld.com
Feb 15, 2016 ... facebook free basics Danish Siddiqui/Reuters. You may have heard that Internet. org is a nonprofit organization launched by Facebook CEO ...

Exclusive: Egypt blocked Facebook Internet service over ...
www.reuters.com
Mar 31, 2016 ... Free Basics, launched in Egypt in October, is aimed at low-income customers, allowing anyone with a cheap computer or smartphone to create a ...

Free Basics: Facebook's failure at 'digital equality'
www.aljazeera.com
Aug 31, 2017 ... Facebook's Free Basics app aimed at providing free online services in developing countries is not what it claims to be.

Why India snubbed Facebook's free Internet offer - CNET
www.cnet.com
Feb 26, 2016 ... Called Free Basics, it provided only limited access to the Internet through a suite of websites and services that, unsurprisingly, included Facebook ...

India blocks Facebook's plan for free Internet
money.cnn.com
Feb 8, 2016 ... Facebook's campaign to offer free Internet access to hundreds of ... "Free Basics," formerly known as Internet.org, offered limited Internet access ...

Facebook's Free Basics: what's so wrong with giving the world free ...
www.newstatesman.com
Jan 14, 2016 ... In 2013, Facebook launched Internet.org, an initiative which would offer free internet services in 37 countries – with a catch. Internet.org, provided ...

Can Facebook Connect the Next Billion? · Global Voices Advox
advox.globalvoices.org
Jul 27, 2017 ... Print advertisements for Free Basics in India, from 2015. Images shared widely on social media. In 2015, Facebook rolled out a plan to help ...

Facebook Rebrands Internet.Org App As “Free Basics”
www.fastcompany.com
Sep 25, 2015 ... We want to make it clear that the apps you can use through Internet.org are free, basic services,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook is talking to the White House about giving you 'free ...
www.washingtonpost.com
Oct 6, 2016 ... If Facebook succeeds with its U.S. agenda for Free Basics — which has not been previously reported — it would mark a major victory for the ...

After harsh criticism, Facebook quietly pulls services from ...
theoutline.com
May 1, 2018 ... A Facebook spokesperson declined to talk about the regions where Free Basics has been discontinued, but said the company has launched or ...

Inside the Walled Garden: Deconstructing Facebook's Free Basics ...
dl.acm.org
Oct 25, 2017 ... Free Basics is a Facebook initiative to provide zero-rated web services in developing countries. The program has grown rapidly to 60+ ...

Facebook′s free Internet service ′Free Basics′ stirs debate in ...
www.dw.com
Dec 28, 2015 ... Mark Zuckerberg has tried to convince Indians to support Facebook's new Internet campaign, Free Basics. The app claims to provide free ...

10 things to know about Facebook's Free Basics, net neutrality ...
www.business-standard.com
Dec 23, 2015 ... Facebook's much-touted Free Basics programme has run afoul of activists for a free and equal internet in India. When Facebook launched a ...

Facebook the Colonial Empire - The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com
Feb 11, 2016 ... First, Facebook's Free Basics platform was effectively banned in India. Then, a high-profile member of Facebook's board of directors, the venture ...

Facebook's Free Basics quietly pulled from Myanmar, other markets ...
www.engadget.com
May 2, 2018 ... Myanmar's government and the state-owned telecom (Myanma Posts and Telecommunications) that Facebook teamed up with to provide free ...

How Facebook Stumbled On Its Quest to Give Internet Away For Free
www.buzzfeednews.com
Jan 21, 2016 ... Yet its most prominent initiative is its zero-rated app, now called Free Basics, which contains the “entire set of free basic services,” Facebook's ...

Marc Andreessen Unwittingly Likens Facebook Free Basics To ...
www.forbes.com
Feb 10, 2016 ... By implying that Facebook's Free Basics, like colonialism, was beneficial to India and suggesting that Indians are destined for economic disaster ...

Facebook's Free Basics plan: India academics see 'deep flaws ...
www.bbc.com
Dec 30, 2015 ... Facebook wants to provide Indians with free access to a limited number of internet services. But critics of the Free Basics service say it runs ...