I live in India, FWIW. My major gripe with internet.org is that its not really "for the poor". The minimum requirement for internet.org is an Android smartphon

I live in India, FWIW. My major gripe with internet.org is that its not really "for the poor". The minimum requirement for internet.org is an Android smartphone, which costs atleast 6000 INR (100 USD). If someone has the purchasing power for an Android smarthphone (over say, a dumbphone that would cost 1/6th of that), you definitely have enough to pay for data charges (which are in the range of a 2-3 USD per month at most). I used to browse internet on Opera Mini on a "pay-as-you-go" plan (something like 0.1 INR/40kb I think) and I paid less than 1 USD/month for that. My usage was certainly minimal (HN + GMail + Google News + Facebook) with images turned off. But now that I have the purchasing ability to buy a smartphone, I do have enough to pay for a costlier data plan as well (3-4 USD/month). Paying <5% of your phone cost a month for data charges is not that hard.