[oconnor663]

Do you think they'd be better off without Free Basics at all, or more that they'd be better off if it worked differently?

[r3bl]

I do think that consumers would be better off with something like 100 MB of free data per month than an unlimited access to Facebook.

And I do think that Facebook wouldn't lose a lot compared to the current system. 98.41%[0] of the total social media traffic would still go to Facebook.

[0] I chose that percentage because that's the percentage for my country, with YouTube at the second place with .53%: http://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats/all/bosnia-and-...

[cguess]

I'm not even sure that Serbia has "free basics". It's a fairly well developed country with a 110% mobile penetration rate (last I checked, probably higher now), 4G and the prices are dirt cheap and affordable for the vast majority of the population.

[r3bl]

Serbia doesn't. Other countries in this experiment (like Cambodia and Venezuela) do.

[cguess]

Cambodia, where the last independent newspaper was just shut down: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-devastating-shu...