Facebook announced that it will allow more websites and online services have access to free data plan your Internet.org initiative, which seeks to expand free access to the Internet worldwide.
“Today we are launching Internet.org Platform, an open forum for developers to easily create services that integrate with Internet.org and we are also giving people more choices on basic services that can use program” Facebook said on its official blog.
The announcement comes just weeks after several companies in India withdraw their support for the project, noting that the plan of Facebook is contrary to net neutrality, the idea that all Web traffic should be treated equally.
Opponents of the plan launched by the social network Internet.org argue that favors access to certain websites and applications to the detriment of other .
The initiative led by the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, allows subscribers of mobile operators who ally with Facebook to use a limited number of online services without additional charges.
Facebook has launched the program in countries like Guatemala, Colombia, Tanzania and Kenya since 2014.
To access the initiative, users must use certain applications compatible with the Android operating system, Internet.org website, own Facebook application for Android or the Opera Mini browser.
So far, the service was limited to about a dozen services in each country, but what Facebook will expand to allow other developers to join in what the company calls the Internet.org platform.
The developers who want to join may not offer websites that require intensive data such as high resolution video .
Also, should run both the most basic phones and more sophisticated.
Among the companies that withdrew their support Internet.org in India they are the travel site Cleartrip .com and media giant Times Group, owner of the Times of India, who expressed fear that phone companies end up deciding applications and services to which users can connect.
Indian Save the Internet coalition said in an article published in the Hindustan Times last month that Zuckerberg and his Internet.org initiative want to make people believe that Facebook and the Internet “are the same thing.”
Zuckerberg argues that Internet.org is an alliance with governments and mobile operators to help include everyone on the opportunities access to the web.
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