The government has halted the program over concerns that Facebook violates Net neutrality by offering only certain Web content for free. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

In a sort of anti-climax, Facebook India has announced the scrapping of the controversial Free Basics project in the country in wake of the decision by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ...

This week, Facebook released Discover, the latest take on its Free Basics “web for all” work. Available in Peru, Discover is a mobile web and Android app that provides users with a daily balance of ...

When Mark Zuckerberg announced to Indian newspaper reporters, in the US for prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley, that he wanted to spread the internet, the whole internet, many ...

Close to 50 faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science on Tuesday released a statement highlighting flaws in Facebook's controversial Free Basics programme.