The Roshan telecommunication company in Afghanistan announced on 9 October that it is offering free access to Wikipedia to all its customers across Afghanistan in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation. This partnership, the first of its kind in Afghanistan, allows all of Roshan’s customers to access Wikipedia on their mobile phones, search for content and get information without incurring mobile data cost for a year. Altaf Ladak, deputy CEO of Roshan said the partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation expanded the frontier of access to information and knowledge, especially for Afghanistan’s youth who make up almost two thirds of the population.