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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has banned differential pricing for data in the country, which means that mobile carriers and broadband providers won’t be able to charge subscribers based on what content or services they access. That effectively deals a blow to Facebook’s Free Basics, which offered users the ability to visit sites hosted on its platform at no charge via mobile carrier Reliance Communications. Several activists in the country, including a group that banded together under the Save The Internet initiative, criticized the service for violating net neutrality principles. The regulator had previously ordered Reliance to block…

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