Google is ending their Free Zone Promotion in India by 31 March, 2014 due to some unknown reasons. Whoever has accessed the Google Powered Free Zone these days would notice a message appearing in the homepage saying about the ending of their promotion within 31st.
Few days earlier, Google India in a link-up with Bharti Airtel introduced a new service called Free Zone. With this feature people having an Airtel SIM card could access google and its service for free of cost through mobile phones. The services included Google Search, Gmail and Google+ etc.
This was very handy because even without any balance in pocket everyone was staying in touch with their mail box and the giant social networking site. For students like me, it was like a global handbook that provided help about studies anywhere, anytime. Although, everyone was getting these fantastic beneficial stuffs, some people started condemning it. Their grumble was that, Airtel were trying to cut user's balance via making them pay extra money to surf external links. But all these complaints were baseless. Because, whenever an external link gate appeared it showed up a message that "You've to pay to visit the next link". So it is clear that they weren't sucking users to pay additional bucks.
Lastly, a request to Google & Bharti Airtel (wish they could hear me). Might be that you've faced unavoidable losses during the running of the promotion, but please endeavor to bring this awesome service again in India. Anyway, for your here-on-call help — thank you Free Zone and a farewell. See you soon.
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I'll miss you for sure!
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