Developed under Facebook’s Internet.org branch, the service had over 3 million users in Egypt, a third of which were first-time users.
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Egypt shuttered Facebook’s (FB) free internet service, Free Basics, on Wednesday, the tech giant confirmed.
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According to recent reports in media, Facebook is running massive print and TV campaigns in India to change the perception about its “Free Basics” service.
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Just yesterday, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said that different pricing models mentioned in the consultation paper of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) are not only violating the core principles of Trai’s pricing regulation but also the principles of net neutrality.
In a letter seen by Reuters, the heads of nine start-ups including Alibaba-backed Paytm and dining app Zomato have written to the TRAI urging it to ensure Internet access was allowed without differential pricing. The issue here is some sites are being offered to one person free of cost while another is paying for it. Is this a good thing and can operators can have such powers?
Mr Zuckerberg has got personally involved, arguing his company’s case in an editorial in The Times of India newspaper this week. Subscribers can then use that particular mobile network free of charge to access a limited number of online services.
TRAI, which has extended the deadline for submission of comments till January 7 amid an intensified campaign for and against Free Basics, said a large percentage of the 18.27 lakh responses have been only about supporting the specific Facebook product without answering the larger issue of “differential pricing”.
Facebook’s Free Basic service has been suspended in North Africa, after Egypt joined other countries in suspending the scheme. However, a majority of these responses -around 14 lakh – did not provide any answer to the questions posed by the regulator, and supported Free Basics.
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“Our job is to make a policy that is in the interest of telecom operators and end users in India”.
