It is a mutually beneficial partnership to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Mobile Service Providers;<br><br><b>To the MSP</b><br><br>* Positive marketing and PR benefit to supporting the mission, and the 
opportunity of offering a unique service to new and potential customers<br><br>*Data we have collected at WMF shows that 28% of existing readers would be more likely to buy services from an operator that provided Wikipedia Zero.<br>

<br><b>To the Wikimedia Foundation</b><br>*Aim is to reduce barriers to accessing free knowledge in a quest to let everyone share in the sum of all human knowledge.<br><br>//Stephen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Brian Ngure <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:brian@pixie.co.ke" target="_blank">brian@pixie.co.ke</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Cool. So the mobile operators pick up the cost of data transmission vi partnerships with the Wikimedia Foundation (if I understand correctly).<br>

</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder which local MNO will do this first, if any?</div>

<div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Stephen Wanjau <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke" target="_blank">stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero</a><br clear="all">



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