Aircel and the Wikimedia Foundation yesterday launched Wikipedia Zero to offer
Wikipedia on mobile phones without any data charges to Aircel customers.
The service which was available to people of 16 countries now has an astonishing 470 million subscribers in Africa, Eastern Europe, Far East and India.
Hindi Wikipedia, has 22.1 % of page views globally from mobile, compared to 17.3% for ALL other languages.
Aircel customers will be able to access versions
of Wikipedia in English, Hindi, Tamil,
and 17 other Indic languages free of
cost.
Aircel may be the first Indian Telecom to offer this service but its not an exclusive deal and other companies may partner with Wikipedia and give its users the service.
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