[tobz]

I just don't get this. Maybe I haven't read deeply enough, but...

- what is preventing the companies signed on to the Free Basics platform from being accessible in India? is it technical? political?

- what does Free Basics actually provide if not financial support to end users or carriers for now letting people access these sites?

On its face, it looks as is Free Basics is some sort of strong arm technique to get carriers to allow access to particular sites (but are those site actually blocked?) so that Facebook can reap the karma of being the one to spearhead such a change.

[rubberstamp]

free basics is a relaunched facebook service which was initially named internet.org

Sites which wants to be part of free basics will have to get facebooks approval, there by making facebook the gatekeeper.

Those sites which get approved can be accessed through free basics, and will have all the traffic go through facebook(lovely, isn't it?). Also the traffic is insecure.