African Opera Mini Users Saved US$500million In Mobile Internet Data, says Opera Software

Opera Software , a Norwegian software company popularly known for its
Opera browsers has reported that users of its Opera Mini mobile
browser in Africa saved about US$500million in mobile Internet data up
to October 2015.

South African users enjoyed around a US$65 million
(R905 million) saving over the ten months and
Nigerians saved a whopping US$198 million (NGN39.5
billion).

These savings were made possible thanks to Opera's
advanced compression technology which shrinks
webpages down to as little as 10% of their original
size, reducing data consumption by up to 90% and
has helped African users of the Opera Mini mobile
browsers to use 82% less mobile data.

According to the report, overall Opera Mini users on
Java-based phones saved an average of 88% in
mobile data each month, smartphone users saved
about 76% while Android and iOS users enjoyed 75%
and 70% savings respectively.

The report is based on aggregated information
obtained from the Opera Mini servers.

Opera Mini is compatible with over 3,000 mobile
devices, ranging from basic Java phones to the latest
Android and iOS smartphones, making it highly
popular in the African mobile market, which has a
healthy mix of consumers using a large variety of
handsets.

Opera's compression technology was developed to
help the 40% Opera Mini users in Africa who now own
more data-hungry Android devices to use less data
and save more money.

Also, Opera Software recently launched an updated
version of Opera Max , a data management and
compression app which uses unique technology to
save data on videos without any visible loss of
quality and significantly reduces the rate of buffering,
thereby making the users' video-watching experience
even better.

Africa accounts for around a third of Opera's users
globally and Nigeria is Opera's third largest market in
terms of numbers of users.