Why India's Net Neutrality Activists Hate Facebook
- India's telecoms regulator is seeking views on data pricing
- Facebook is touting Free Basics as 'bridge' out of poverty
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Facebook Inc. Chairman Mark Zuckerberg made a personal appeal in one of India’s leading newspapers for the country to allow a free Internet service that has stirred controversy and invited questions from regulators.
Facebook’s proposed Free Basics plan allows customers to access the social network and other services such as education, health care, and employment listings from their phones without a data plan. Yet activists say the program threatens the principles of net neutrality and could change pricing in India for access to different websites.