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===First Year of Operation===
===First Year of Operation===
Free Basics marked its one-year anniversary in Zambia, where it first began working with the telecommunications company [[Airtel]]. Zuckerberg says this partnership allowed got "hundreds of thousands of people access to some basic services for health, education, jobs, communication".<ref name="youtube"></ref><ref>[http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/07/one-year-in-internet-org-free-basic-services/ One Year In], FB.com. Published 2015 July 26. Retrieved 2015 November 13. Updated 2016 April 23.</ref>
Free Basics marked its one-year anniversary in Zambia, where it first began working with the telecommunications company [[Airtel]]. Zuckerberg says this partnership allowed got "hundreds of thousands of people access to some basic services for health, education, jobs, communication".<ref name="youtube"></ref><ref>[http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/07/one-year-in-internet-org-free-basic-services/ One Year In], FB.com. Published 2015 July 26. Retrieved 2015 November 13. Updated 2016 April 23.</ref>
===Rebranding from Internet.org to Free Basics===
===Rebranding from Internet.org to Free Basics===
The rebrand and new Free Basics app also supported secure [[HTTPS]] services, and included privacy language "so that users will know what data will be collected". Users were also given the option on the app or mobile web version to add a number of free services, provided from a list of more than 250 providers.<ref name="opening">[http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/facebook-opens-up-internet-org-with-new-free-basics-apps/ Facebook renames Internet.org as ‘Free Basics’, offers open platform for developers], IndianExpress.com. Published 2015 September 27. Retrieved 2016 April 23.</ref>
The rebrand and new Free Basics app also supported secure [[HTTPS]] services, and included privacy language "so that users will know what data will be collected". Users were also given the option on the app or mobile web version to add a number of free services, provided from a list of more than 250 providers.<ref name="opening">[http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/facebook-opens-up-internet-org-with-new-free-basics-apps/ Facebook renames Internet.org as ‘Free Basics’, offers open platform for developers], IndianExpress.com. Published 2015 September 27. Retrieved 2016 April 23.</ref>
==Availability==
One year after the launch of Free Basics, Facebook was working with more than a dozen mobile operators across 17 countries to give more than a billion people "access to relevant basic internet services without data charges".<ref name="fb"></ref> By 2016 April, the service was offered to
==Criticisms & Controversies==
==Criticisms & Controversies==
===Case Study: Egypt===
===Case Study: Egypt===
Following the actions of India, at the end of 2015 December, Egypt also pulled the plug on Facebook, which had been launched two years prior with the local telecommunications company, [[Etisalat Egypt]]. Facebook estimated that this shutdown resulted in the loss of internet for 3 million people in Egypt. Etsilat Egypt and the Egyptian government declined to comment to AP about the shutdown.<ref name="ap">[http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4b0654ec892d429d94261beae145f68c/free-internet-service-over-3-million-egyptians-shut-down Free Internet service for over 3 million Egyptians shut down], AP.org. Published 2015 December 30. Retrieved 2016 April 23.</ref>
Following the actions of India, at the end of 2015 December, Egypt also pulled the plug on Facebook, which had been launched two years prior with the local telecommunications company, [[Etisalat Egypt]]. Facebook estimated that this shutdown resulted in the loss of internet for 3 million people in Egypt. Etsilat Egypt and the Egyptian government declined to comment to AP about the shutdown.<ref name="ap">[http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4b0654ec892d429d94261beae145f68c/free-internet-service-over-3-million-egyptians-shut-down Free Internet service for over 3 million Egyptians shut down], AP.org. Published 2015 December 30. Retrieved 2016 April 23.</ref>
===Case Study: Peru===
Peru began offering Free Basics in 2015 September, though the telecommunications operator [[Entel]], though it was not without national controversy. Miguel Cassinelli, manager of institutional relations and sustainability for Entel, said the issue of whether Free Basics complies with Peruvian net neutrality regulations was to be discussed by the country's regulatory body.<ref name="buzzfeed"></ref> Countries like Chile, which have banned "zero rating", are not offering Free Basics at all.<ref name="buzzfeed"></ref>
==References==
==References==