India: What’s next for Facebook after Free Basics?

Almost about two months after social networking firm Facebook Inc. started an aggressive campaign to promote and gather support for its Free Basics initiative in India spending millions of dollars on advertising, all its efforts have turned futile. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Monday banned Internet service providers from offering customers preferential or discriminatory tariffs to access certain content, over concerns that it will violate Net neutrality norms.