Why don't we ask the people who currently have no internet what they'd prefer?
Result: Yes, some internet is better than no internet.
Nowadays, where I stopped using facebook mostly, I just buy like the tiniest data package my provider supports, wait for it to throttle to 64kbps, and just use IRC, the web without JS, etc.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/fast-and-free-facebo...
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