Axiata-Wikimedia in partnership to offer free mobile Wikipedia

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KUALA LUMPUR: The Axiata Group Bhd and the Wikimedia Foundation have entered into a partnership to offer Wikipedia on mobile devices free of data charges to Axiata customers throughout Asia.

The utility company said it was removing barriers to information while joining the Wikimedia Foundation to increase access to the free and open knowledge available on Wikipedia.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

“This partnership is part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Zero programme, which focuses on reaching billions of people around the world whose primary opportunity to access the Internet is via a mobile device,” said Axiata in a statement.

The partnership currently includes customers of Axiata subsidiaries in Sri Lanka (Dialog Axiata), Cambodia (Smart Axiata), Malaysia (Celcom Axiata), Indonesia (XL Axiata) and Bangladesh (Robi Axiata). — BERNAMA