This initiative is aimed at developing countries. The latest announcement about a partnership with the Middle East telecommunications operator Saudi Telecom.
This partnership affects 25 million customers of the operator in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait.
The Wikimedia Foundation talks about a "strategic priority" to access Arabic in several of his projects, and a partnership with Saudi Telecom, which is in line with its mission to allow anyone on the planet "free access to the knowledge. "
Wikipedia Zero with the program, they are 230 million mobile users in the world who are concerned with free access to Wikipedia. Other partners mobile operators: Orange (Uganda, Tunisia, Niger, Kenya, Cameroon, Ivory Coast), Telenor (Montenegro), Digi (Malaysia), dtac (Thailand). Some partnerships provide access to only a mild version of Wikipedia, and only text (zero.wikipedia.org) and others m.wikipedia.org.
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