Opera Software's mobile web browser, Opera Mini has crossed the 50 million unique monthly users mark in January 2010. In just the past year, Opera Mini has seen growth in every geographic location, with the number of users growing 150 percent from 20 million monthly unique users in January 2009 to 50 million monthly unique users in January 2010.
The browser offers server-side compression, which shrinks Web pages by up to 90 percent before loading them on the device, speeding up the browsing experience and also saving users a substantial amount of money on their data usage bills.
To reach its first 10 million users, Opera Mini took 28 months from January 2006 to April 2008. However, the last 10 million has taken only three months from November 2009 to January 2010.
"Our original goal with Opera Mini was to make the Web available to everyone, regardless of their network or mobile phone. Fifty million active monthly users is a great start,:" says Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera. "Opera's innovative nature and its popularity among users will help us make the mobile Web even more accessible and attractive to more people across the world."
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