The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has released its latest study into, well, the affordability of internet access. The study shows how big the challenge is on that front in emerging… Read more »
Opera just released a new tool called App Pass, which gives carriers an easy way to provide people with free access to certain apps for limited periods of time. The tool is… Read more »
Facebook’s internet.org portal, which emerging-market carriers offer for free in order to give new customers a taste of the web, has rolled out in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra,… Read more »
For better and for worse, welcome to the world without net neutrality. More people will get online, but unless they have the money to pay their way into the free web,… Read more »
When it comes to Facebook, there’s privacy and there’s privacy. And the way things are playing out, improvements on one kind of privacy could in effect act to the detriment of… Read more »
Finland’s Pryte developed technology that lets carriers charge for mobile data on a per-app, short-term-pass basis. Is this the way forward for Facebook’s Internet.org initiative? Read more »
Facebook is reportedly planning to launch a payments offering that will surely include mobile phones. Rather than focusing on proximity mobile payments, though, the social network appears to be developing a… Read more »
The majority of the world is still on 2G networks and using feature phones. Internet.org’s new joint innovation lab aims to give developers the means to design their apps with those… Read more »
A flurry of announcements out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week have underscored how emerging markets have become the newest hotbed in the worldwide mobile industry. Those markets present… Read more »
Facebook wants the first app accessed by new smartphone owners in emerging markets to be its social networking service. It’s working with Spreadtrum to ensure its software will come pre-installed in… Read more »