Facebook to scale up free mobile Internet service to boost usage

One key part of that is the charm offensive is a dedicated portal that provides a go-to resources for operators seeking to connect with Facebook and offer the service – which was first announced in 2013 – to their subscribers.

Over the last year, Facebook has worked closely with more than a dozen mobile operators across 17 countries to give people access to relevant basic internet services without data charges.

Facebook put it is joining a fresh stage to ways in which providers and specialists be part of Internet.org, as it appears to be to really ramp up the reasonable world wide web commitment. “We’ve made it easier for any mobile operator to turn on Internet.org in new countries through a partner portal that includes technical tools and best practices, improving the process to offer free basic services to the unconnected”, Facebook wrote in a blog post. Facebook developed the platform with six technology partners to bring an estimated 4.5 billion unconnected people online, mainly in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Internet.org, which is marking its first anniversary on Monday, has been able to bring in new users at a faster pace as well as making at least half of them move to a paid model within a month, Facebook has claimed.

“Our goal is to work with as many mobile operators and developers as possible to extend the benefits of connectivity to diverse, local communities across Africa”.

Facebook was not paying for any of the data being used to access the service, he said.

“I would say India is exclusive in that respect and really a lot an outlier”.

In a telephonic interaction with the IndianExpress.com, Chris Daniels, the Vice-President of Product for Internet.org at Facebook, said: “We have noticed that users who have joined Internet.org want to move on and experience more Internet”.

A committee of the telecoms ministry set up to look at the difficulty of internet neutrality earlier this month advisable that collaborations between mobile operators and content material suppliers that allow “gatekeeping” roles must be discouraged.