Facebook Gives Free Mobile Internet Services To India by introducing the concept of internet.org

Facebook’s Internet.org project to provide basic mobile internet services for free launched in India.

The app isn’t available to all Indian, since Facebook collabrate with  Reliance to offer free access to Internet.org sites in an initial six states - Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, and Telangana. That’s the first step on a path to “provide internet access to more than a billion people in India who are not yet connected,” Facebook said in a statement.

Most of the services on Internet.org are available in English and six local languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati and Marathi — and they can be accessed via the dedicated Android app, the start screen on Opera Mini and UC Browser app.

There are an initial 38 websites and services bundled into the free service in India. The selection ranges from Facebook and Facebook Messenger (of course), to news services -BBC, Reuters, ESPN and India Today -music site Hungama, news,Wikipedia and government Sites. Other general services include travel, weather, sports and parenting information.

Expansion to India has been on the cards for some time after Facebook launched a $1 million fund dedicated to making apps for India at its Internet.org summit in New Delhi last year.