BARCELONA, Spain --Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vowed Monday to press on with his 3-year-old effort to bring the developing world online, even after Indian regulators banned one of the pillars of the ...

Mark Zuckerberg's ambitious mission to provide free Internet access to rural India was rejected by the people it was intended to help long before the country's regulators banned it earlier this month.

India’sTelecom Regulatory Authority on Monday ruled in favor of Net neutrality, effectively banning Facebook’s Free Basics Internet access app. “This is a very important decision for the future of the ...

Facebook took a major blow in its initiative to spread free Internet around the world on Monday when Indian regulators banned its "Free Basics" program, which would have given free access to a select ...

On Monday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India blocked Facebook’s ability to offer its Free Basics Internet connectivity in the county. The decision followed heated debate in India about whether ...

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After a barrage of criticism targeted at the Facebook-led Internet.org initiative, the company announced today that it will now allow the use of encrypted services without charging data fees. Facebook ...

A report released today by activist group Global Voices found that not only does Facebook’s Free Basics violate net neutrality principles, it’s not even very helpful to those who use it. Free Basics, ...

Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down recently, ...

Facebook is working to bring its controversial Free Basics program, which promises to get more low-income users onto the internet by providing free access to a curated and limited set of online ...

Nobody ever said connecting the world would be easy. Despite aggressive efforts to promote universal connectivity in India, Facebook just struck out. India’s telecom regulator has blocked the ...