Google joins Airtel to offer free internet (Free Zone) in India

Google and Bharti Airtel collectively announced a new program called Free Zone aka free internet in India.

As being the 2nd largest Telecom market in the world and recently in India mobile internet traffic has surpassed desktop, With all this Google is eyeing to engage more users in its services. This program was launched in Philippines last year.

How Free Zone works:

Airtel mobile customers can access the service by visiting g.co/freezone or airtel.in/freezone. People can access Google services like Gmail,Google+ and Google search for free of cost. Only the first page of a website linked from search results is provided at no data cost. While surfing a green bar will be displayed at the top of the browser indicating free zone is applied at that moment.

Downloading an attachment from Gmail and accessing web pages other than listed in the search result will cost you. A warning will be displayed  if you are accessing a page that cost.