‘Google, Facebook Back Effort to Make Internet Affordable for All’ – ‘Mashable’

Seth Fiegerman says, “Several of the biggest names in tech have signed on to a new initiative to bring down Internet costs in the developing world.Google has partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the UK Department of International Development to create a new coalition called the Alliance for Affordable Internet. The group, which officially launched Monday, includes more than 30 members including Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo and Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web“.