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Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’ venture gives valuable lessons

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ISLAMABAD: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was ecstatic a year ago. His dream of bringing two-thirds of the unconnected world (including a billion Indians) on to his Facebook was appearing to come to life! The ‘Free Basics’ initiative (originally internet.org) was officially launched in India on February 10, 2015. Ironically, it was exactly a year later when […]


PTA and SIMs

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THIS is apropos the PTA announcement (Dec 31) about the new SIM selling process. It has been mentioned that people should carry the original CNIC when getting a new connection for verification purpose. However, the implementation of biometric system at service centres and franchises of different mobile network operators enables people not to carry the […]