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_ News Worth Discussing _ Africa and the Middle East to get free mobile access to Wikipedia - Tecca

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Tecca
by Fox Van Allen | Last updated 3:21PM EST on January 24, 2012 With access to information quickly becoming a human right, one international mobile carrier is partnering with the Wikimedia Foundation to offer its 70000000 customers in Africa and the ...

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SlashGear
When the term Data Free comes up on your news readers and in the newspapers in the coming months, you'll know that it started here, and with Wikipedia and Orange, who together will be offering free – that is, without data charges – use of Wikipedia's ...

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PARIS, France, January 24, 2012/ — In the first partnership of its kind, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation will provide more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with mobile access to Wikipedia – without incurring ...

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Wikipedia will become the first website being offered for free to mobile users in Africa and the Middle East. Telecomm provider Orange has teamed up with Wikimedia to offer the website data free. Any Internet-enabled phone with an Orange SIM card can ...

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IntoMobile
Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation are teaming-up to provide more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with free mobile access to Wikipedia. The goal of the partnership is to “make knowledge more easily available to ...

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iTWire
It's not unusual to see mobile operators offering plans that include unmetered access to social networking sites such as Facebook. More constructively, Orange will waive data charges for Wikipedia access by its customers in Africa and the Middle East.

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Watching the Watchers.org
by Kul The Wikimedia Foundation is working to make knowledge freely available to every person in the world, but for many potential readers in developing countries, the only way to access the Internet is by paying for data on a mobile phone.

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Bikya Masr
CAIRO: Orange Telecom is partnering with Wikipedia in an effort to deliver the online encyclopedia free of all data charges to mobile users in the Middle East and Africa. The move has users excited about being able to use the digital library on a daily ...

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By Tessa Reed, Journalist The initiative forms part of Wikimedia's mobile strategy, which aims to reach the billions of people around the world who access the Internet solely through mobile devices. Telecommunications provider, Orange and the Wikimedia ...

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Mobile users across Africa and the Middle East will be able to access Wikipedia via their devices without incurring data usage charges, via a new partnership between Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2009, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation ...

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Millions of people in developing nations without access to computers will soon have free and easy access to the largest online encyclopedia in human history thanks to a deal between French telecom giant Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation, ...

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Telecommunications operator Orange has entered into an agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation to provide over 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with mobile access to Wikipedia, without incurring data usage charges.

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ABDELJALIL BOUNHAR / AP Pro-democracy protesters march through a lower income neighborhood in Casablanca, Morocco, on Sunday denouncing the newly elected government and the king. Morocco is among the nations to soon receive free mobile access to ...

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Radio World
In an effort to make knowledge more readily available, telecommunications operator Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation have announced that are partnering to provide Wikipedia — at no extra cost — to Africa and the Middle East (AMEA).

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Radio World
In an effort to make knowledge more readily available, telecommunications operator Orange and the Wikipedia Foundation have announced that are partnering to provide Wikipedia — at no extra cost — to Africa and the Middle East (AMEA).

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