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Opera Software released the January edition of its “State of the Mobile Web” report, highlighting Middle East mobile web usage. Some of the more interesting data from the report include:
- In January 2009, Opera Mini usage jumped 12.1% over the previous month to 20 million unique users. Monthly page views increased even more, jumping 18% to 7.6 billion web pages in the same time period. Data transfers were also up 18% from December 2008 as Opera Mini generated more than 122 million MB of data for operators worldwide — an equivalent of 1.1 billion MB of data if that data wasn’t compressed by Opera’s servers. January of this year also marks the first month that Opera Mini servers have processed more than 1 petabyte of data!
- Armenia led all countries in Opera Mini growth from January 2008 to January 2009, with usage jumping more than 2800%. With 1854%, Nigeria was second and other notable countries include: Egypt (1391%), Philippines (570%) and Kazakhstan (419%). With an average of 669 pages viewed in January 2009, Armenia also led all of the top 35 countries in page views per user.
- The top 10 countries using Opera Mini in the Middle East are: Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon and Yemen.
- The top 10 countries using Opera Mini in the world are: Russia, Indonesia, Ukraine, China, India, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Poland and Germany.
As for the Facebook usage in the Middle East, the popular social networking service was one of the top 10 sites in 9 of the top 10 countries in the region: Iran (#9), Israel (#1), Saudia Arabia (#10), Syria (#3), Jordan (#3), United Arab Emirates (#3), Oman (#9), Kuwait (#4) and Lebanon (#1).
More information about Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report is available from here.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
