&gt;Plus: provides &quot;some&quot; internet for a billion people ... including wikipedia and various info apps. Includes photo sharing, chat, ...<p>Chat, fb, etc is free for now, because Facebook &quot;allows&quot; it to be free. Once everyone is on free basics, they can do a U-turn and say only Facebook messenger, Facebook website, Facebook * is free. What are you going to do then?<p>What prevents them from doing this?<p>Letting FB or any company be a gatekeeper to net is wrong on so many levels. There are so many devious things they can do and we as people or other companies will be totally helpless.