Motorists ride past a billboard displaying Facebook's Free Basics initiative in Mumbai, India, December 30, 2015. India has become a battleground over the right to unrestricted Internet access, with local tech start-ups joining the front line against Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg and his plan to roll out free Internet to the country's masses. The Indian government has ordered Facebook's Free Basics plan on hold while it decides what to do. Picture taken December 30, 2015. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
NEW DELHI: India’s telecom regulator has attacked Facebook over an aggressive campaign to drum up support for its controversial free Internet project after being deluged with millions of comments asking it not to ban the service.
In a letter dated Jan 18, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) accused the social media giant of carrying out a “crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll” in its lobbying effort, entitled Save Free Basics.
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