Nasscom issued a press statement, wherein they have said that ‘differential pricing’ proposed by telecom companies and their partners should be allowed for ‘public interest’ services. They said, “.. regulator should have the power to allow differential pricing for certain types/ classes of services that are deemed to be in public interest”, adding, “any differential…
hennai-based meme creators, Chennai Memes, have launched an online campaign to combat child pornography, urging web users to report such sites to the cyber crime police. A member of the group recently stumbled upon several Facebook pages and WhatsApp groups which upload and circulate pictures of young girls, as well as pornographic material involving children.…
In the wake of massive protests against Facebook’s Free Basics service, ET’s Neha Alawadhi and Krithika Krishnamurthy take a look at the alternative methods to ensure internet connectivity for all. How to Connect Rural India Ad-based model Mozilla, in partnership with Grameenphone, gave 20 MB free data to users in Bangladesh after they viewed an…
Over the last few months, the activism against Facebook’s free internet in India has been called “elitist” and “self-righteous.” An opinion piece in The New York Times, for instance, called the opposition “elite Indian condemnation of internet for the poor.” Most voices that have come out in criticism of Free Basics—which provides free but limited…