India has banned Facebook’s Free Basics and other services that enable carriers to charge differential pricing for different kinds of data.

More significantly, this means Facebook’s “free Internet” initiative is also banned.

It’s obvious that FaceBook was not really providing Internet service for free, but was offering Facebook’s version of the Internet (Facebook, that is) and the people of India are not stupid.

Source: India says yes to net neutrality, no to Facebook’s Free Basics