I've been sent a copy of a new book, Basic Income, A Transformative Policy for India, by the publishers, Bloomsbury, to whom thanks. It's thoroughly wonkish and if you're interested in in the design ...

In 2015, Facebook announced with some fanfare the rollout of its “Free Basics” service in India. 1 Partnering with the wireless telecom Reliance, customers that downloaded the Free Basics app onto ...

Facebook’s Free Basics only went live across the whole of India last month, but it looks like the company is already concerned that it may be under threat as the Indian telecoms watchdog gears up for ...

Facebook has withdrawn Free Basics from India, days after the country’s telecommunications regulator prohibited the differential pricing of data depending on the content or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

In a sort of anti-climax, Facebook India has announced the scrapping of the controversial Free Basics project in the country in wake of the decision by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ...

India’s government has banned Facebook’s Free Basics plan, saying it violated the country’s view of Net Neutrality, according to the BBC. Free Basics offered users access to a specific group of ...