Opera is reporting that eleven new countries including Kenya and Egypt have each surpassed one million monthly Opera Mini users this year. So now there are 22 countries in total with more than one million active Opera Mini users each month. Kenya achieved the fete in June 2011, Egypt in March 2011 while SA achieved the fete in June 2009. Nigeria reached the one million monthly usage in January 2010.
On its periodic State of the Mobile Web, Opera is also reporting that more than 140 million people used Opera Mini last month, with usage growing 83 percent in the last year. As of October 2011 OperaMini usage has doubled eight times since its introduction.
“Opera Mini has gained users in every country, across 2G, 3G and 4G networks, across feature phone and smartphones,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software.
Full List of Countries with more than One Million Monthly Opera Users
| Country | Date reaching 1 million users |
|---|---|
| Russia | March 2007 |
| Indonesia | March 2008 |
| India | May 2008 |
| Ukraine | September 2008 |
| United States | December 2008 |
| China | February 2009 |
| South Africa | June 2009 |
| Nigeria | January 2010 |
| Vietnam | March 2010 |
| Brazil | October 2010 |
| Belarus | December 2010 |
| United Kingdom | January 2011 |
| Mexico | March 2011 |
| Philippines | March 2011 |
| Kazakhstan | March 2011 |
| Egypt | March 2011 |
| Turkey | April 2011 |
| Bangladesh | April 2011 |
| Kenya | June 2011 |
| Pakistan | July 2011 |
| Poland | July 2011 |
| Uzbekistan | July 2011 |
In October 2011, Opera Mini users viewed 86 billion pages, up 107 percent year-over-year. Those page views accounted for almost 13 petabytes of data through operator networks. Due to Opera Mini’s data-crunching compression technology, those petabytes were cut down to just 1,335 terabytes of data. Over the past 12 months, data usage has surged 121percent. For the curious user, just press “help” and choose “data savings” in your Opera Mini browser to see how much data you have saved.
Read the full report: http://www.opera.com/smw/.
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