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.
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