&quot;And if Free Basics proved popular there would be little to stop India’s big media and e-commerce groups from creating rival offerings, to drive first-time surfers towards their web offerings.&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s <i>precisely</i> the problem. Most advocates for Net Neutrality are afraid of exactly this: the death of the free and open internet for those who can&#x27;t afford it, replaced by some fragmented collection of services offered in a bundle package like some Cable Television plan.