Now a days internet is like the electricity. If it goes off we are very much worried and unstable. In olden days when there were power cuts it was a big deal. Today if there is no internet connectivity then yes it is a big deal. Now every one likes to have a good internet connectivity. The rising number of smartphones is helping every person to get the world of internet in their hand.
Free Mobile Internet Service
For using this internet, data used is charged by the network operator. The prices of this data is also increasing. It is affordable to people but they are not able to make the most of it as there is a data limit concerned. For internet broadband users there are various unlimited data packages which helps the user to use his/her creativity at the best to explore the internet relentlessly.
The social network giant Facebook has already taken a bold step to scale up their service to offer Free mobile internet. They have already introduced in the 17 developing countries in the past year.
As per a blog post of this campaign they said that with the help of a dozen of network operators they have made this possible to give free mobile internet to people. The motto of the internet.org is to provide free basic internet services to people without any data charges. The main goal of this campaign is to get more and more people on internet, to get more value from it.
They had started their operation from Zambia and it is one complete year for this great journey of providing free internet. They have made a easy process for any network operator to get associated to this activity. This will help them to reach more mobile operators and more people eventually. They have created good tools and best practices to improve their process. Their main goal is to reach more and more operators and developers so that they can reach to more local communities in the world.
It is amazing to see that the people using the service are more searching for health services. It is undoubtedly an important issue and as per the data, people have searched for health related services more than a million times. So we know people are very much concerned about the health and are looking for health related solutions/remedies/services. They are open to get associated with more and more mobile operators and developers to provide free mobile internet access unconnected.
This campaign from Facebook has got over 9 million people get connected over internet. Users can access to the web services which are associated with internet.org and facebook for free. They are able to reach this audience 50% faster and more than half of these people are paying for data to have wider access within the 30 days span.
India
In India Internet.org was launched in February in the association of Reliance Communications. Though it was not much successful as various technology and internet firms pulled out of the service as it violated the principles of a neutral internet. We had also supported for the net neutrality and yes it was a hold on the freedom of an internet user. Though internet.org is going strong in other developing nations. At least it will help people in other countries who never had any access to internet are getting free access.
What is your view on this step by Facebook?