The #Net Neutrality is the trending topic of India over past two months in many social media followed by technological newspapers as well. Though there are ample of advantages followed by indirect issues are associated with the Net Neutrality, the peoples of India are still in a dilemma to accept the new trends. In fact, TRAI, the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of India has recently conducted a survey for the implementation of Net Neutrality as proposed by several telecom operators in the country. Hope you know the familiar and exclusive website www.savetheinternet.in, which significantly provides valuable information about the net Neutrality in India.
You can also visit the above website to know more happenings around the Net Neutrality problems in India and their respective feedbacks.
Can we get Free Internet Access?
The Internet is an indispensable thing in our day to life. Be it a browsing, sharing or any piece of finding our requirements, the Internet is the best way of finishing things off in style. But, in India, getting an Internet connection is easy at the same time; we need to pay according to the speed we propose categorically. There is an opportunity of getting free internet services, irrespective of the location you live in India. Is this possible? Yes, it is, with the help of Internet.Org website.
You can certainly get free access to the world of Internet without paying any penny for all the available basic services. The free basic internet services through Internet.Org were officially implemented in continents like, Asia, Africa and America as well. Bringing more people online is the basic objective behind the internet.org. Though, there is ample of benefits available, why people are saying no to this concept? Find more in the following lines.
Social Media Giant Facebook Internet.org Program:
Not only the Telecom operators proposed the implementation of Net Neutrality in the country, also the social media giant, Facebook. The Facebook has gone one step further and started a Facebook Internet.org website in partnership with Reliance Communications in India. According to the Facebook, the Internet.org is a free internet solution to India, which has a wide variety of information to browse for free of cost. The Facebook Internet.org also allows you to access over 30 websites, without paying any single cost to the data charges categorically.
8 Lakh users of Facebook Internet.org in India:
Hope you aware of the Facebook Internet.org program and its controversy in India. In such scenario, Facebook gained over 8 lakh subscribers of the same (internet.org) website. Accordingly, the new net neutrality program Facebook is not only initiated in India, perhaps it’s a global stuff.
Some of the higher critics Facebook earned through launching this Internet.org in India are that, “Facebook is violating the principles of Net Neutrality by providing priority to the peoples who offer higher rates to the telecom” (the internet service providers) industry for sure.
“We have 800,000 Internet.org users in India in just the supported seven circles. Internet.org is helping people connect to the Internet for the first time,” a Facebook spokesperson said.
New Record of Bringing New Peoples Online: Facebook
According to the records stated by Facebook Internet.org, over 20% of the users are new to the internet world. This is a crystal evident of bringing new peoples in Online as never before. Some of the areas, where the Facebook Internet.org services are accessible as per the Reliance Communication circles are, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Gujarat, Chennai, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala as well.
It is very clear that, this new Facebook program in partnership with Reliance communications is implemented exclusively in South India alone.
Globally, the Facebook Internet.org services are made available to over 800 million peoples all over the world. As of now, this service is accessible in 9 countries including India.
Official Talks about the Facebook’s Internet.Org:
“The goal of Internet.org is to allow more people to experience the benefits of being online… The Internet.org Platform aims to give people valuable free services that they can use to discover the entire wealth of online services and, ultimately become paying users of the Internet,” the spokesperson said.
Cost for browsing Beyond Facebook Internet.org:
The access to the Facebook’s Internet.org is absolutely free. But wait, can you simply get the world of information within this site, even Google as not got power in the internet world. Hence, you always have to dive out of the internet.org website to find your requirements in real time manner. Hence, anything you browse beyond the access to the Internet.org, you have to pay to the respective ISP (say, Reliance here). This is an indirect way of receiving money from the end user and hence people are not interested in the #Net Neutrality program by Facebook!
Future Plans of Facebook Internet.Org:
In the recently concluded Facebook Developers Conference, it is announced that, there is an open programme available for developers, which will help them to create ample of new services to integrate with the internet.org indeed. Interestingly, the Facebook Internet.Org states that, it aims to bring over 5 billion peoples online and it is eager in making partnership with tech giants like Qualcomm & Samsung Inc.
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