The author isn't arguing that people need access to the internet so that they can binge Netflix or venture down the YouTube rabbithole. The tug-at-the-heart-strings examples that the author used to justify her pet project are all easily fulfilled with 1GB per month.
I'd measure using Wikipedia as one of the most used resources worldwide. Currently, loading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019 once with warm cache transfers 1.3MB. Single Google search takes just short of 1MB. At this rate 1GB will run out pretty quickly.
