Ncell, country’s leading mobile service provider, has joined hands with
the Wikimedia Foundation and is launching a new product - Wikipedia Zero
- under which all Ncell customers will be able to access the world’s
largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, free of mobile data charges.
Wikipedia Zero is coming into effect from May 7. This means, from May
7, all Ncell customers accessing Ncell internet will be able to browse
Wikipedia at zero cost. There is no service fee attached to the product
and no product activation is required as well.
“Wikipedia Zero is one of our initiatives to provide great value to our
customers. It will pave the way for present and future subscribers of
Ncell to try our data service for free and also deliver a huge knowledge
base in their hands,” said Erim Taylanlar, chief executive officer of
Ncell.
Wikipedia is the world’s largest online encyclopedia, visited by 500
million people each month, according to Comscore. Wikipedia contains
more than 30 million articles in 287 languages, contributed by a global
community of 80,000 volunteers. The Wikimedia Foundation is the
non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and supports the local
communities.
Ncell believes free access to knowledge will contribute to the Nepalese
society greatly, helping to close the knowledge gap and excel, stated
Sanju Koirala, corporate communication director of Ncell. It is also
expected to enrich Wikipedia by supporting growth in number of articles
in the Nepali version.
Due to technical constraint, the facility of free browsing, however,
will not available on Opera Mini, Blackberry and other handsets using
native proxy browsers. Accessing Wikipedia through these browsers will
be charged at prevailing rates.
Likewise, visiting external links present in Wikipedia is out of scope
of this offer and will be charged as per the existing data plan. The
mobile customers, whenever they click on an external link, will be shown
a notification indicating that standard data charges will apply to view
the link. External link will be opened on subscibers’ consent only.
Source:
http://ncell.com.np/News
