[zinghaboi]

Reaching out to poor people is a poor propaganda excuse to make sure the regulator doesn't come after them.

Free Basics is being advertised in metropolitan areas, not poor villages. Why waste money advertising it on TV Channels which only the elites watch? Poor people cannot afford subscriptions to those channels. Yet they're running Free Basics ads on those channels. Why don't they limit Free Basics to first time FB sign ups? Why are they targeting people who already have internet connections? Majority of people who will sign up for Free Basics are the ones who already have internet. That is exactly what Zuck wants. No advertising money to be made in remote villages. If it was...Facebook would be in the villages...it is NOT!

The fact is that Facebook is not committed to Net Neutrality.

[sremani]

Are metros devoid of poverty? It is the first group of poor people who might be aware of Internet but do not have economic power to attain it. If I start something like FB basics, I will start with Urban poor, not rural poor. Advertising on Channels, I do not have much knowledge and you may have a point there.

Even in First World, people are cutting cord and using their mobile phones as sole Internet connection, that Internet is capped, has priority traffic etc.

I prefer net neutrality, but am willing to give some exceptions esp. when catering to lower economic spectrum, who themselves cannot exchange money for Internet connection.