Nobody is restricting anything. You can still pay for Internet. It's only a free service tier. Don't forget that these are mostly 2G connections and so a ful

Nobody is restricting anything. You can still pay for Internet. It's only a free service tier. Don't forget that these are mostly 2G connections and so a full internet experience is likely to be a poor one. The limited services here are serving up lite versions of their products that should provide a better user experience on a 2G connection. Honestly this model is not too different from what we had here in the US prior to iPhone. My Verizon phone had a very limited amount of Internet connectivity that was mostly restricted to Verizon's walled garden. I could pay for more connectivity but it was not a good experience. Pages were slow loading and the whole thing was more frustrating than anything else.