India's ban on Facebook's free service is an overreaction

With 80% of Indians still offline, the regulators' decision to block free services in favor of wider consumer choice is a risky decision

What constitutes digital equality?

India's national telecoms regulator thinks it knows, its national consultation on differential pricing for mobile data packages concluding that "zero rating" services, or offering them for free, is discriminatory. And over objections that zero rating practices create more opportunity for the 1 billion digitally disconnected, India has banned them.