Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has tried every trick in the box to bring ‘Free’ Basics to India. Some of our sources had revealed that he had been making personal calls to India to pitch the new initiative. Now, a report by BusinessInsider reveals that Paytm Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma was among the many founders that Mark…
Judgement day is approaching for the fate of net neutrality in India. As Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) gears up to frame the net neutrality rules, telecom operators have favoured differential pricing for data services. Nearly 80% replies to the regulator’s consultation process follow the Facebook ‘templates’ for its controversy-ridden Free Basics platform. Net…
Internet rights groups have accused Facebook of making “unfounded and divisive attacks” on critics of its program to bring low-end Web service to India’s rural poor. Since Indian regulators in late December requested that Facebook halt Free Basics until it turned over more information about the terms of the program, the social media giant has…
To those who fear that the web is beyond control, there’s a message: there’s more to hope for than to despair of. In their report, One in three: internet governance and children’s rights, three experts in children’s use of technology seek to pinpoint those rights to protection whilst ensuring that the benefits offered by internet…
The final day of submission of comments to the telecom regulator turned out to be quite uneventful compared to the month-long high-decibel social media campaign that ensued to disallow Facebook’s Free Basics entry into India. But the volunteer-led groups said that this was not the end of the road for them or for the larger…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday held the lack of investment by mobile service providers in the network infrastructure, including mobile towers, responsible for the problem of call drops. It said the investment had not kept pace with the increase in usage and the number of subscribers. In an affidavit filed in…
Salil Kapoor couldn’t have timed his move better. Last week, the chief operating officer of Essel Group’s DTH platform Dish TV joined HOOQ as managing director of its India operations. Headquartered in Singapore, HOOQ is a video-on-demand service or what’s also known as an OTT platform. OTT, or over-the-top, content in broadcasting refers to delivery…
Every second, internet users around the planet send more than 25 lakh emails, perform 50,000 searches on Google, send more than 10,000 tweets, upload 2,562 pictures on Instagram and transformer over 29,500 Gigabytes of data. And though in its early years, access to this resource was limited to developed countries, the world-wide web is soon going to be…
Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative, four techies from Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district have turned three remote villages into first free Wi-Fi hamlets in the country without government funding. Shakeel Anjum, Tushar Barthare, Bhanu Yadav and Abhishek launched the service at Shivnathpura village on October 4 and later extended the facility to…
Netflix is the world’s top video streaming service that allows users to watch content on screens ranging from a smartphones to a smart television. It works with a variety of other devices like PlayStation and Apple TV, letting users stream directly onto larger screen. Netflix is also the creator of a lot of original, made…