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Net Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential Pricing
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Feb 23, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Free Basics,
Net Neutrality,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
India would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project.
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Blog
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Internet Freedom
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by
Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda
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published
Feb 15, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Free Basics,
TRAI,
Net Neutrality,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
The modern medium of the web is an open-sourced, democratic world in which equality is an ideal, which is why what is most important is Internet freedom.
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Blog
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Facebook’s Free Basics hits snag in India
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 15, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Free Basics,
Net Neutrality,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
Indian regulators have dealt a major blow to Facebook’s controversial Free Basics online access plan by forbidding so-called differential pricing by internet companies, in effect banning the programme in the country.
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News & Media
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Zuckerberg's Plan Spurned as India Backs Full Net Neutrality
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 15, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Free Basics,
TRAI,
Net Neutrality,
Facebook,
Internet Governance
Facebook Inc.’s plans for expansion in India have suffered a major setback.
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News & Media
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Now trending: Regional Indian language social media networks
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 15, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Access to Knowledge
How many languages did you speak today? Chances are there was a lot of English at work and at home, but at least a sprinkling of Hindi (or Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil or Kannada) when you were chatting, gossiping or joking with friends and family.
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News & Media
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Linking Facebook use to free top-up data
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 14, 2016
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filed under:
Digital Media,
Facebook,
Internet Governance,
Social Media
Just before the Trai notification, the Ambani brothers signed a spectrum sharing pact and they have been sharing optic fibre since 2013.
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News & Media
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India Sets Strict New Net Neutrality Rules
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 11, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Free Basics,
Net Neutrality,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Facebook,
Internet Governance
In India, advocates of net neutrality have welcomed new rules by the telecom regulator that have blocked efforts by Facebook to offer free but limited access to the web in the country’s fast growing Internet market.
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News & Media
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Facebook's Fall from Grace: Arab Spring to Indian Winter
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Feb 11, 2016
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last modified
Feb 11, 2016 03:51 PM
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filed under:
Free Basics,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Social Media
Facebook’s Free Basics has been permanently banned in India! The Indian telecom regulator, TRAI has issued the world’s most stringent net neutrality regulation! To be more accurate, there is more to come from TRAI in terms of net neutrality regulations especially for throttling and blocking but if the discriminatory tariff regulation is anything to go by we can expect quite a tough regulatory stance against other net neutrality violations as well.
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Blog
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India bans Facebook’s ‘free’ Internet for the poor
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 10, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Free Basics,
Internet Governance,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Facebook
India’s telecom regulator said Monday that service providers cannot charge discriminatory prices for Internet services, a blow to Facebook’s global effort to provide low-cost Internet to developing countries.
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News & Media
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A Megacorp’s Basic Instinct
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 04, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Telecom,
Free Basics,
TRAI,
Net Neutrality,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
Bolstered by academia and civil society, TRAI stands its ground against FB’s Free Basics publicity blitz.
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