I've been sent a copy of a new book, Basic Income, A Transformative Policy for India, by the publishers, Bloomsbury, to whom thanks. It's thoroughly wonkish and if you're interested in in the design ...

Last year, Facebook’s Internet.org found itself at the center of India’s net neutrality debate. Over 1 million people wrote to TRAI, the country’s Telecom and internet regulator, to share their ...

In 2015, Facebook announced with some fanfare the rollout of its “Free Basics” service in India. 1 Partnering with the wireless telecom Reliance, customers that downloaded the Free Basics app onto ...

Indian telecom regulators have reportedly halted Facebook’s “Free Basics” mobile Internet service, formerly known as Internet.org, over net neutrality concerns. The controversial program allows mobile ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Indian regulators have blocked Free Basics, a controversial Facebook service championed by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg that gave people free but limited access to the Internet on ...

Facebook’s Free Basics only went live across the whole of India last month, but it looks like the company is already concerned that it may be under threat as the Indian telecoms watchdog gears up for ...

On Monday, the man leading India’s main opposition announced that his party would guarantee every poor person in India a minimum income if it wins elections scheduled for this spring. Rahul Gandhi’s ...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India made a wise decision by banning Facebook’s Free Basics internet service. The project was ill-conceived and showed a lack of understanding of India’s culture ...

Facebook has withdrawn Free Basics from India, days after the country’s telecommunications regulator prohibited the differential pricing of data depending on the content or application that is being ...

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 ...