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) mo
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 .
