SAN FRANCISCO. The social network Facebook announced that it will allow more websites and services online to access the 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 program Options on basic services that they can use, “Facebook said on its official blog.
The announcement comes just weeks after several companies in India withdraw their support for the project, saying the plan 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 argue that favors access Internet.org to certain websites and applications to the detriment of others.
The initiative led by the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg , allows subscribers of mobile operators that 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, the website Internet.org, 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 Facebook will expand to allow other developers to join in what the company calls the Internet.org platform.
The developers who wish to join can not provide web sites that require the data-intensive, and high-resolution videos. In addition, they must operate in both the most basic phones and more sophisticated.
Among the companies that withdrew their support Internet.org in India are the travel site Cleartrip.com and media giant Times Group, owner of the newspaper Times of India , which expressed fear that phone companies end up deciding applications and services to which users can connect.
Indian coalition “Save the Internet” said in an article published in the journal 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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