Sunday, May 15, 2016

Facebook partners with Airtel Africa to launch Internet.org Free Basics in Nigeria

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Free Basics provides basic mobile websites and services for free to people around the world, providing them with an onramp to the internet and demonstrating the value the internet can provide.

Free Basics will launch in Nigeria with more than 85 free services dedicated to health, education, jobs, and finance.

To date, Free Basics, have brought more than 25 million people online who wouldn’t be otherwise. More than half of the 40 Free Basics countries are in Africa.

In November at AfricaCom, Airtel announced that it planned to launch Free Basics in all of its African markets, including Nigeria. You can read that announcement here.




Mark Zuckeberg posted about the launch in Nigeria : you can read more here.
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