ROME – Facebook aims to become a real Internet provider. According to the Washington Post, it would be in negotiation with the government and the telephone operators and the u.s. offer free access to the Internet through its service is Free Basics’. The program would be aimed at people with less wealthy of the country and to the rural areas of the Usa and it has already been tested in developing countries. It is not without controversy. In India, for example, has been blocked by the authorities because it damages the principle of network neutrality.
Free Basics is a rib Internet.org the project which aims to bring the web in all over the world, especially in cities that are not covered. Offers a free access but partial to some web services (news, health information, and work), giving a certain priority to the content offered in the social network. Hence, the decision of India to block it.
According to the source in the Washington Post, the the company Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with the us authorities just to avoid stumbling into the same problems that he faced with the New Delhi government.
According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 15% of adults in the us do not have another source, beyond the smartphone, to access the web; and 48% of those accessing the network from the mobile phone they had to suspend the service because you can’t afford it.
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