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Aircel To Offer Free Wikipedia Access On Mobile Phones

Aircel and the Wikimedia Foundation tied up today to offer free access to Wikipedia on mobile phones without any data charges to Aircel customers. This is the first service of its kind to formally launch in India. This service lets you browse Wikipedia website (m.wikipedia.org) without any data charges (as mentioned earlier). This partnership is a part of Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Zero program, to enable mobile access, which focuses on reaching the billions of people around the world whose primary opportunity to access the internet is via a mobile device. This partnership between Aircel and the Wikimedia Foundation will help provide Wikipedia to 60 million new users in the region.

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According to press release, Anupam Vasudev, Chief Marketing Officer for Aircel, said

“Through our alliance with the Wikimedia Foundation, Aircel is not only making internet services reach a wider audience, but also help encourage and enrich the lives of our customers by offering access to knowledge and information free of cost. We are excited about this partnership and hope this initiative will benefit all our customers from various age groups”

Kul Takanao Wadhwa, Head of Mobile with the Wikimedia Foundation said

“We hail Aircel’s commitment to enhancing and expanding access to free knowledge for their mobile customers. With the partnership, we extend our program to India where we potentially reach millions of people for the first time. Aircel is one of the operators across the globe that has contributed towards expanding free access to Wikipedia Zero to 470 mn mobile users.”

Aircel customers will be able to access versions of Wikipedia in English, Hindi, Tamil, and 17 other Indic languages free of cost. It is available only prepaid customers and not available for BlackBerry customers on Aircel.

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