Meanings of free basics in English

Instead, he's pushing aggressively to get Free Basics into new markets.

Since then, Free Basics has added 60 services, and the platform is open to all developers.

The largest of these projects is Free Basics, an app that offers access to free web services.

Free Basics is part of Facebook's ambition to expand in its largest market outside the United States.

Free Basics and zero-rating programs also pose serious threats to our ability to organize social movements online.

Part of that is the Free Basics program, which Facebook has launched in around three dozen emerging countries.

For these users, mobile zero-rating programs like Free Basics might seem like a welcome respite from onerous data limits.

The TRAI has asked Facebook and Reliance Communications to suspend Free Basics until a final policy decision is made next month.

Motorists ride past a billboard displaying Facebook's Free Basics initiative in Mumbai, India, December 30, 2015.

A motorist rides past a billboard displaying Facebook's Free Basics initiative in Mumbai, India, December 30, 2015.

India banned the social network's Free Basics programme in 2016 because of concerns that it favoured some internet services including Facebook's over others.

Nigeria was the most recent country to launch 80 pre-selected websites on Free Basics with Airtel Africa, the country's second largest mobile provider.

His ostensibly altruistic Free Basics scheme, though offering internet access to millions, was banned in India because it created a monopoly and violated net neutrality.

Facebook claims Free Basics is the solution to getting internet access to more of the estimated 4.2 billion people worldwide who are still offline.