# Professor Nicholas Economides explains why Indian regulators preserved net neutrality by rejecting Facebook's "Free Basics" program

1 Faculty News February 9, 2016 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/marketplace-tech-tuesday-february-9-2016?WT.mc_id=2869b8e8e6634c3ac052931c865bdab2) -- "Well, I think it's important that India upheld its net neutrality rules and did not allow Facebook to come in and provide a very, very small part of the Internet, rather than the whole Internet. The network neutrality rules require an even playing field among all websites. And Facebook was clearly violating that."

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