Battle for African Internet users stirs freedom fears

March 24, 2015 admin bharti-airtel, critics-argue, facebook, moneysupermarket, roughly-double, simon, such-as-vodacom, the-continent, united-states

By Joe Brock JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Google and Facebook are at the forefront of a scramble to win over new African Internet users, offering freebies they say give a leg-up to the poor but which critics argue is a plan to lock in customers on a continent of 1 billion people.

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Battle for African Internet users stirs freedom fears