1. Facebook has provided studies that do indicate increased internet adoption after free basics (real internet adoption, after having been introduced via Fed basics).  You&#x27;re welcome to read the studies and debate their bias, but the studies exist.<p>How the telecoms market is irrelevant to this discussion. Of course they&#x27;re going to market having access to the most popular websites and apps. Hell, they probably use the same advertising when selling real internet service.<p>2. Also irrelevant.  Internet in train stations is not comparable at any level to cellular data connectivity for 10&#x27;s of millions of people.<p>3. You are right in this point, but I also find it presumptuous that the Indians with enough money to have internet are the ones dictating what is good for the Indian people without enough money for internet.