> "some access is better than none at all"
Not really.
Mark said that governments and telcos decide which services go on internet.org
Do you really want the government (or even your telco) deciding which news source that the poor (who are easily influenced) read?
Leaving aside the preservation of competition, government deciding what news services to provide to the poor has huge political ramifications, especially when every media outlet has a bias towards one end of the political spectrum or other.
In this case, no access is far better than some access. Just because it didn't play out as bad as it could have in China, doesn't mean that the same will happen in India. See North Korea for example.