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An Empirical Analysis of Facebook's Free Basics

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  • (2017)Leveraging Facebook's Free Basics Engine for Web Service Deployment in Developing RegionsProceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development10.1145/3136560.3136568(1-11)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2017

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    SIGMETRICS '17 Abstracts: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
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