Benefits of Free basic usage
Will reduce the digital divide.
Free Basics allows customers to access selected social networks, and services like healthcare, education and job listings from their phones without a data plan.
Drawbacks
It violates net neutrality, a concept that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. This will be
detrimental to the growing startup entrepreneurs, students, activists and tech employees flourishing in India.
Free Basics developers can’t innovate on technology without the permission of Facebook. There is a need for unbiased, equal Internet that treats all developers same.
In Free Basics, Facebook can decide the content for the users on their behalf which leaves them with no choice.
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