For more than two years, Facebook has been fighting off criticisms of its effort to bring Internet access to underserved regions. Free Basics, an app that grants users access to Facebook and other ...

Facebook, through its Free Basics platform, hopes to bring the Internet to people in emerging markets. But not all countries are on board. Here’s why. Although Facebook isn’t the only company involved ...

Facebook had a high-profile setback when its Free Basics mobile connectivity program got blocked in India earlier this month over net neutrality issues, but its CEO Mark Zuckerberg is adamant — even ...

A ferocious resistance has built up in India to Facebook's ballyhooed Free Basics initiative for low-end Web access. The country's telecom regulator has ordered the social-site giant's program put on ...

Facebook has withdrawn Free Basics from India, days after the country’s telecommunications regulator prohibited the differential pricing of data depending on the content or application that is being ...

Facebook is very proud of its Free Basics initiative. The successor to the internet.org project brings free online access to the populations of over 65 developing countries, but while that may sound ...