At Mobile World Congress on Monday Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg took the stage with three executives from carriers in developing countries to talk about the progress of Internet.org and its attempts to… 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 »
Google wants to make Android apps free to use overseas, giving more people access to mobile data services in developing markets, according to a new report in The Information. This kind… 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 »
Zero-rating – where carriers charge nothing or very little for the data used by specific apps and web services – is a threat to net neutrality, web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has… Read more »
The list of countries that find zero-rating to be a violation of net neutrality just keeps on growing, with Canada the latest to crack down on the practice. “Zero-rating” or “positive… 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 »
Half of the world’s mobile carriers are exempting at least one app from data charges, according to Allot. More often than not, that app is Facebook. The subsidized mobile internet is… Read more »