&quot;... by throwing in short-sighted plans, you are preventing the Government and the market from thinking up plans for giving permanent access to the full Internet for these poor.&quot;<p>I am on the fence on whether to support Free Basics or not, but the scale tilts here for me towards Free Basics. This response is like saying, &quot;No, don&#x27;t help them - you&#x27;ll prevent us from helping them at some point in the future.&quot; The poor person in the village, on the street, shouldn&#x27;t have to wait five more years for the internet(in whatever form) when a solution (though partial) is available now. Suppose the government does introduce a proper &#x27;Free Internet&#x27; plan two years later. I don&#x27;t think anything would stop them from switching from the biased Free Basics to the better plans.