* Kim Bruning wrote:
Found another article calling out Wikipedia. Are there also articles praising us? :-)
Quoting,
Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Wikipedia become “the Internet” for the users of mobile data supported by “zero rating” plans, because accessing these services doesn’t cause users to hit the data caps applied by the carriers, and in many cases the plans don’t require the user to sign up for mobile data at all.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero_Operating_Principles
Wikipedia Zero cannot be sold as part of a bundle. Access to the Wikimedia sites through Wikipedia Zero cannot be sold through limited service bundles.
It seems pretty clear to me that users of Wikipedia Zero must pay a non-trivial amount for "mobile data" above and beyond normal telephony services, even if they only access "zero-rated services", otherwise it is a limited service bundle which we are lead to believe is forbidden.
(It is also possible the intent of the requirement above is that it is entirely okay to "sell Wikipedia Zero" through limited service bundles so long as an operator does not offer even more limited services; in that case the phrasing is grossly misleading.)
I assume the Foundation closely monitors offerings of operators it has made an agreement with to ensure access to Wikipedia Zero is never sold as part of a limited service bundle. Could the relevant records please be released?