TRAI questions Facebook about soliciting Differential Pricing feedback- (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) (12 Jan 2016)

MANU/TRAI/0006/2016

Media and Communication

Pursuant to its Consultation Paper on ‘Differential Pricing for Data Services' released on 9.12.2015, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India received 24 lakh responses from stakeholders. Of these, 5.44 lakh responses were received through email with the domain name 'facebookmail.com'; approximately 13.5 lakh responses were sent through '@support free basics.in', where only a mobile number of the sender was mentioned. Various queries were raised with Facebook regarding its use if influence to propositioning the responses. Correspondence between TRAI and Facebook is contained in the notification.

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