India’s telecom regulator Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) has banned differential pricing in the country, thus ending zero-rated and free data services such as Facebook Free Basics. No company can ...

Late last year, the Indian government temporarily banned Facebook’s free Basics program over net neutrality concerns. Now, it’s banned for good. A new regulation issued by the Telecom Regulatory ...

Social media network Facebook has shut down its Free Basics service in India three days after telecom regulator TRAI said no to discriminatory pricing of data content — paving way for Net Neutrality ...

Telecom regulator Trai has called Facebook’s high-pitched ‘Free Basics’ campaign a “crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll” having “dangerous ramifications for policy making in India”.

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 ...

Today we’re introducing a new Privacy Basics to make it easier for people to find tools for controlling their information on Facebook. Privacy Basics features ...

Just days after telecom regulators in India temporarily banned Facebook’s Free Basics program, Egypt on Wednesday became the second country to clamp down on the social media giant’s controversial free ...

Telecom network operator Reliance Communications offers Free Basics – the free internet sharing platform from Facebook – to everyone in India. “We just took another step towards connecting India. As ...

Sober telcos are taking stock of their financial positions Many are in Copenhagen for the DTW23 event to take stock and figure out where top- and bottom-line growth might come from There’s a lot of ...

Blue Label Telecoms (BLT), specialists in prepaid products and the electronic distribution of virtual merchandise, says its ‘back-to-basics’ strategy is progressing well as it simplifies its portfolio ...