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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For his part, Zuckerberg argued in the Times of India that internet access is a right and that Free Basics doesn’t clash with net neutrality.
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Facebook told the Associated Press it was working to resolve the situation. Isn’t Free Basics helping to bring down the digital divide?
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The official, who declined to be named, said Etisalat had only been granted a permit to offer the service for two months and that, when it expired on Wednesday, the service was suspended. However, Net neutrality activists say such a move will violate the core principle that everyone should have unrestricted access to the Internet and it should not be regulated by a company. Since the launch, more than 3 million people have signed up for the service, and 1 million of them received access to the Internet for the very first time in their life. It would put small content providers and start-ups that don’t participate in it at a disadvantage, they say.
Free Basics, launched in more than 35 developing countries around the world, offers pared-down web services on mobile phones, without any charge.
Meanwhile, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has extended the last date for receiving comments on its paper on differential data pricing, which is key to the debate on net neutrality to January 7.
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. Free Basics is still live in over 30 countries.
Academicians from India’s premier institutes IITs and IISc have slammed Facebook’s Free Basics initiative, terming it “flawed” and “misleading”.
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TRAI chairman R S Sharma said that a large percentage of responses received are about supporting Free Basics. However, the service has come under fire from campaigners and governments for prioritising sites such as Facebook over others.
