Now Egypt and Kenya Have More than a Million Monthly Opera Mini Users

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 South Africa 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 Opera Mini 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

1. Russia
March 2007
2. Indonesia
March 2008
3. India
May 2008
4. Ukraine
September 2008
5. United States
December 2008
6. China
February 2009
7. South Africa
June 2009
8. Nigeria
January 2010
9. Vietnam
March 2010
10. Brazil
October 2010
11. Belarus
December 2010
12. United Kingdom
January 2011
13. Mexico
March 2011
14. Philippines
March 2011
15. Kazakhstan
March 2011
16. Egypt
March 2011
17. Turkey
April 2011
18. Bangladesh
April 2011
19. Kenya
June 2011
20. Pakistan
July 2011
21. Poland
July 2011
22. 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.

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