37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
Internet.org, the Facebook-led initiative to provide select apps and services to mobile phone users in emerging markets for free, recently passed 800,000 subscribers in India. Along with local telecom companies there, the service provides access to around 30 websites and services without charging the user for the mobile data necessary to use those services, which include Facebook and Wikipedia.
Internet.org’s goal has been to act as a loss-leader of sorts, getting consumers online via mobile to access services that can improve their lives, and then turning those consumers into paying mobile data package customers.
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