India’s telecom regulator has strongly criticised Facebook over its campaign to drum up support for its Free Basics internet plan in India. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said a poll prompting people to support the plan was “crudely majoritarian and orchestrated”. It had earlier asked the mobile network that partnered with Facebook to…
Facebook has rubbed India’s telecom regulator up the wrong way in its quest to provide free Internet. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in a letter published on Tuesday accused the social media company of turning a public debate on Net neutrality “into a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll.” The TRAI in December began…
Social networking website Facebook is testing an improved in-app browser that would allow users input their own URL should they want to check another page without leaving the Facebook app, a report claimed, citing users who were seeing the new interface on their iOS app. Besides the aesthetic shift, a new bar on the bottom…
The Prime Minister’s Office or the PMO may soon start providing first time Internet users in the country with some amount of free mobile Internet data like LPG subsidy. Sources quoted by ET said that the PMO was monitoring the differential pricing issue closely as the Digital India campaign is a pet programme of Prime…
from the we-see-what-you-did-there dept For much of the last year now, Facebook has been under fire in India for its “Free Basics” zero rating campaign, which exempts Facebook-approved content from carrier usage caps, purportedly to the benefit of the nation’s poor. Critics however have argued that Facebook’s just trying to corner developing ad markets under…
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According to a report issued on Wednesday by the World Bank, the vast changes wrought by technology have not expanded economic opportunities or improved access to basic public services in ways that many had expected. Rather, the report warned that internet innovations stand to widen inequalities and even hasten the hollowing out of middle-class employment.…
The developer, son of prominent lawyer U Robert San Aung, received inspiration for the app during a trip to Switzerland. Following conversations with UN officials and others human rights workers, and given the problems in Myanmar, he had an idea – a platform that would allow victims of human rights violations to communicate with defenders…
The World Bank has said net neutrality should ensure greatest possible Internet access to users and not undermine their fundamental rights and freedoms, voicing concern over moves by companies globally including Facebook in India to provide people free Internet with restricted access. “Care should be taken to ensure that users have the greatest possible access…