From integrating people to Internet.org: Facebook’s 2015

At the moment, rollout of Free Basic has been put on hold after the instruction from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

Defending its project in a post on Internet.org, the firm said “we need to be practical and make sure programs are deployed in a fair and transparent way”.

Net neutrality means Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favouring or blocking particular products or websites. “Two of the services mentioned haven’t even rolled out yet so it’s too early to call them successful”, the company said. With the amount spent by Facebook for promoting “Free Basics”, we can connect one-third of the villages in the country. In their latest video, they demonstrate the difference between Net Neutrality and Facebook’s Free Basics in just a minute.

A spokesperson of Reliance Communications confirmed that the commercial launch of Free Basics is kept on hold until all details are considered and explicit approval is conveyed. It has been labeled “misleading” by people supporting net neutrality for being misleading, and exploiting its over 130 million monthly active users base in India, as Facebook’s latest campaign asks people to support “digital freedom”.

“Facebook first spoke about digital equality”. Simply speaking, Free Basics is nothing but Internet.org. “It doesn’t give Internet, it gives Facebook services”, Siddhartha added.

The FSMI campaign will run till December 29, and can search to mobilize help for internet neutrality from inside the districts in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. It began on Saturday with around 200 people, and FSMI expects this number to rise to about 2,500-3,000 people by Tuesday.

The campaign may also speak about options to Free Basics, corresponding to FreedomBox, which is outlined on its web site as “a challenge that mixes the computing energy of a sensible telephone together with your wi-fi router to create a community of private servers to guard privateness throughout every day life, keep beachheads of free community entry throughout occasions of political instability, and open strains of communication throughout pure disasters”.

Internet.org, which was highly criticised in India is now being introduced as Free Basics. “However, only later we realised that it was against net neutrality”. Academics and people engineering colleges are also expected to lend support to FSMI.