Facebook's Free Basics is no longer available to people in India

Facebook has withdrawn its Free Basics service from India, after the country's telecom regulator banned discriminatory pricing for different data services on Feb. 8. The decision has been a huge setback for the company, which had been promoting Free Basics as a "free" platform to connect Indians to the Internet, through an extensive campaign.

"Free Basics is no longer available to people in India," a Facebook spokesperson said. This decisions comes after an announcement by its telecom partner Reliance Communications, that Free Basics would be a paid platform Read more...