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Net neutrality row grows louder in India, Internet.org hit

April 16, 2015 creative accessed-on-pcs, berlin, bharti-airtel, display-screen, facebook, flagship-effort, growing-debate, norwegian, reliance

A group of India's leading technology and Internet firms has pulled out of Internet.org, Facebook's flagship effort to get billions more online, in a growing debate over free access and internet neutrality in the country. Net neutrality is the concept that all websites on the internet are treated equally. The debate over access and neutrality has grabbed headlines in India this week after leading telecom carrier Bharti Airtel announced a product through which mobile “app” makers pay for data usage to allow customers to use their apps for free

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Battle for African Internet users stirs freedom fears

March 24, 2015 publisher bharti-airtel, facebook, forefront, franchises, francisco-based, internet, roughly-double, said-on-tuesday, striking-deals, such-as-google, the-forefront, united, united-states, wikipedia

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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