Facebook’s free internet is pan-India
Mark Zuckerberg himself took to social media to announce this expansion
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-11-25 01:43 GMT
New Delhi: Social media giant Facebook has expanded its controversial ‘Free Basics’ initiative (earlier called Internet.org) across the country to offer basic internet access on Reliance Communications (RCom) mobile network .
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg himself took to social media to announce this expansion. “We just took another step towards connecting India. As of today, everyone in India nation-wide can access free internet services for health, education, jobs and communication through Internet.org's Free Basics app on the Reliance network,” said Mr Zuckerberg.
He said that nearly 1 billion people are currently without internet access in India. It has over eight lakh users under the Free Basics initiative and is the second largest user-base for Facebook .
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