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Orange forms mobile and internet partnership with Wikimedia Foundation

France Telecom

Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation have announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership designed to mutually benefit each organisation's users by extending the way people can access free knowledge.

Orange will initially provide customers in France, the UK, Spain and Poland with access to co-branded content from the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind the web encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Phase two of the agreement will see the two organisations cooperate to create a range of new services. In addition, the partnership will be rolled out across the rest of Orange's European footprint.

Through this partnership Orange is also supporting the Wikimedia Foundation's core mission of enhancing and expanding the reach of Wikipedia and other collaborative knowledge projects to new users. Read more (PDF) (Orange)

30 April 2009