Reliance is Now Facebook’s Partner to Provide Free Internet Access in India

Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Facebook partnered up providing FREE Internet access. They planned to give Free access to internet.org’s application. Indian users can now browse the internet.org’s application and site free of cost.

The press conference which was held today (10 February 2015) from 12 noon onwards, at Hotel Taj Vivanta, Mumbai, was jointly hosted by Reliance Communications and Facebook. Reliance is Now Facebook’s Partner to Provide Free Internet Access India.

Indian users need to have a Reliance network to access free internet, i.e., internet.org’s site and application for free.

RCom Internet.org App Will Offer Free Access To 38 Websites Including Facebook.

Starting today, Reliance customers in Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, and Telangana will have access to more than three dozen free services like local news, sports, and health information.

Most of the services will be available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati and Marathi.

What is Internet.org ?

Internet.org is a consortium of Internet, mobile and technology companies,with the aim of bringing Internet access to the unconnected two-thirds of the world population. It is led by Facebook,Inc.

It gives free access to websites listed below here :

Aaj Tak
AccuWeather
amarujala.com
AP Speaks
Babajob
BabyCenter & MAMA
BBC News
Bing Search
Cleartrip
Daily Bhaskar
Dictionary.com
ESPN Cricinfo
Facebook
Facts for Life
Girl Effect
HungamaPlay
IBNLive
iLearn
India Today
Internet Basics
Jagran
Jagran Josh
Maalai Malar
Maharashtra Times
Malaria No More
manoramanews.com
Messenger
NDTV
Newshunt
OLX
Reliance
Reuters Market Lite
Socialblood:
Times of India
TimesJobs:
Translator
Wikipedia
wikiHow

How to Access Free Internet using Internet.og ?

Just browse http://internet.org from your mobile’s browser or download internet.org’s mobile application.

when we tried to access it from other network provider, we got an error like this –What are your views about this major change made by Facebook and Reliance? Isn’t it unfair free internet access for only reliance network customers? what will others do who are not on this network? will they have to buy Reliance SIM card for accessing free internet?. Comment down with your valuable suggestion/feedback 🙂

Well! From my side, I think its a good step taken by Facebook and RCOM to provide Free internet access. Also there will be increase in sales for RCOM 😉 Let’s see what happens next 🙂