Facebook on charm offensive to dominate internet access in India

Facebook is readying a new scheme to bring cheap internet access to rural India in a race against Google to reach the two-thirds of India’s 1.25bn population currently not online.
Previous attempts by the tech giant to provide the public with internet access were stopped in their tracks. In February India’s telecoms regulator blocked Facebook's Free Basics internet service app, ruling in favour of net neutrality protestors.
Free Basics was designed to offer the public