After the departure of some Indian companies Internet.org, Zuckerberg issued a note in which he explained the initiative of offering free Internet access, but limited emerging countries.
Many Indian media and Web service said “no” to Internet.org last Thursday. Internet.org is a free version and Internet clamped created by Facebook in almost nine emerging countries.
Internet.org They accused of breaking the rules of net neutrality, they decided to withdraw their applications of the service.
Internet.org was created by Facebook in 2013 in collaboration with major Web companies. It was implanted in India, there are some bold month to an application for an Internet connection for free.
The user does not pay consumption data, it will be borne by the operators enforcement partners . The user can access nearly forty “services” free, including news, weather, jobs, Google search and of course Facebook.
With this service, the Facebook CEO thinks touching nearly 800 million people in the world.
problems is that Facebook is deciding which services are available on Internet.org and collaboration with local governments. Indian web companies see it as an attack on net neutrality.
According to the concept, everyone can have equal access and not discriminated Inernet. While this is not the case on Internet.org. Cleartrip is the first to withdraw from Internet.org, and for fear of “influence the decisions of customers by imposing choice”. In order to answer this decision, Mark Zuckerberg published a post on Facebook, and to support his statements, the CEO of the social network began his post with a great story.
The boss of Facebook began by telling a visit to a school in an Indian village who had just discovered the Internet . “It was amazing to think that in this hall was perhaps a schoolboy with a great idea that could change the world. Now they can do it through the Internet. “
With this, the Facebook CEO, believes that” if someone can not afford a connection, it is always better to have an access rather than no access at all “.
“The argument of net neutrality should not be used to prevent the most disadvantaged people in society access to opportunities,” he says.
Moreover, India opened a broad debate on net neutrality, driven by practices and claims of local telecoms. The operator Airtel has created a controversy by offering its users the ability to connect to free some partner applications. They had to pay for the program. In a country where consumption data is expensive, this operation provides a unique advantage for such applications.
Indian operators have also asked that the free messaging apps like Whatsapp, that compete with their calls and SMS pay, offer them some of the profits generated by applications with them. An application that Indian regulators have denied
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