Mobile phone operator Banglalink has launched Wikipedia Zero in Bangladesh, an initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation to enable mobile access, free of data charges, to Wikipedia in developing countries like Bangladesh.
The service was introduced on Friday to any of their subscriber free of cost, says a press release on Sunday.
The service aims at reducing barriers to accessing free knowledge one of the main barriers to this is the cost of data usage in developing countries.
Despite a huge growth in mobile internet penetration in the country, this is the first time a mobile operator is offering free mobile data access to Wikipedia in Bangladesh.
Any Banglalink subscriber will be able to browse Wikipedia, upload multimedia contents, connect to global community site for the Wikimedia projects, and donate photos for Wikipedia projects and a lot more by using Wikipedia domains & applications.
