[bahularora]

I run a startup called Mhire, it helps companies hire blue-collar workers. These workers are one of the target audience of the FB's Free basics program, from my understanding it will be helpful for them to get free internet, but it would be bad for startups like ours as it would give a huge unfair advantage to our competitor BabaJobs which is a Free Basics partner. It would be extremely bad for competition. And would prevent competition from finding unique models which try to eschew the problem of low internet penetration in this marketplace. There are many unique ideas startups are utilizing to solve this problem, like using miss call marketing, call based broadcast of jobs, human social network to name a few. It will be extremely bad for the whole startup ecosystem.