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Internet.org Under Criticism In India

  • BBC, Friday, April 17, 2015 11:57 AM
To Mark Zuckerberg’s chagrin, his Internet.org initiative isn’t going over so well in India. “At the heart of the row is Internet.org's policy of ‘zero-rating,’ whereby telecoms providers agree not to pass on the costs of handling the data traffic so that consumers can receive services for free,” BBC News notes.” As a result, several Indian firms have pulled out of the project.
 

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