content: No, but it could be rolled into a basic plan. Look back to what the cellphone world looked like 10 or 15 years ago. Companies were charging people for chunks of text messages (100, 300, etc.), and multimedia texts were based on type and took a larger chunk of that usage. When you went over they were charging people like 25 cents a multimedia message and 10 cents a text. Plus as a dollar or more a megabyte for usage above their limited amount, which was usually not more than a couple dozen MBs. Back then the costs for wireless internet was pretty expensive, but no where near the prices they were charging. By 2011-2012 the cost had dropped to about 3 dollars a gigabyte for last mile data delivery. Today it is well under a dollar--imagine how low it is for landlines? We started out in the smartphone market with an average of $30 for unlimited data in the United States, and then went backwards from there, even as the cost for delivering that data tanked. Thankfully, a few companies have went back to including data in their unlimited plans for reasonable prices (relative to income). It isn't that far out to think about data as just part of an access plan. Here in the U.S., some companies already offer $30 a month plans with unlimited data (although they tend to restrict the speed after such an amount). And companies like FreedomPop can offer free for the life of the phone unlimited calling and texting and 500MBs of data with the purchase of a phone, with additional data for an extra price. That shows how cheap it has become to offer data and voice services. The fact is, we have developed these data dependent devices and then started restricting access to information and raising prices. When you take into account that the average smartphone user uses about a gig and a half a month, globally, an estimate that is estimated to hit 2GBs a month by 2017 (6GBs in the U.S.), it is easy to see that it wouldn't be that difficult for companies to include it in their plans--globally it would only cost between 30-120 cents to provide that data in a lot of places, and falling. I would argue that wireless data delivery will hit penny's per GB by 2020. In less developed countries, that don't have the bandwidth heavy platforms we have, providing access to information would be exceedingly cheap. In places like India (and even the United States and Europe), where they just announced a $4 smart phone that can make a profit, if they offered a data plan that was one way (as was suggested by a satellite company startup), something like Google Loon, or relied on some form of restricted usage, it would cost penny's to provide that data to customers on a monthly bases--it could even be government funded. Using something like this, it isn't unthinkable for data to be included with a device, or with a super affordable usage plan. A great example was what the Wikimedia foundation did in parts of Africa, they set up a system that allowed people to access articles using text messages that were reformated for the limited phones and bandwidth available, and included for free with the device. With the rapidly declining cost of data delivery, the affordability of information devices, and an open internet, the idea of providing "free internet" isn't that much of a pipe dream in coming decades. It is likely to become a right in many places. Eventually.