Chris Daniels, Vice-President of internet.org at Facebook along with
Gurdeep Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Business, Reliance
Communications and Markku Mäkeläinen, Director, Global Operator
Partnerships, Facebook at a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday Feb 10,2015
Facebook on Tuesday announced a tie-up with Reliance Communications to
launch Internet.org in India, bringing to the land of a billion-plus
people a service that the social media giant says helps affordable
Internet access but whose critics disapprove its restrictiveness.
The service has already been launched in Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Colombia and Ghana
Facebook’s 30-year-old founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the
development on his social network. He posted, “More than a billion
people in India don’t have access to the internet. That means they can’t
enjoy the same opportunities many of us take for granted, and the
entire world is robbed of their ideas and creativity.”
The tie-up gives subscribers of the Anil Ambani-led Reliance
Communications who have Internet-enabled handsets free access to 38
Websites – a mix of news, music, education, weather and health sites.
The list includes Facebook, Wikipedia, and Reliance Astrology.
The lone
search option available is Microsoft’s Bing which can be accessed via an
Android app.
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