Consumers save 8 billion dollars per year with Opera Mini

October 27, 2009 · by Espen André Øverdahl

In our latest State of the Mobile Web report, you can read that Opera Mini crosses 35 million users, has more than 500 million page views per day on average and processes 2 petabytes of data per month.

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Commonwealth of Independent States (9/09)

The report, published monthly, provides information on the top global trends affecting the mobile Web. The full report is available from http://www.opera.com/smw/ (English only). In addition to the data-pricing trends and country snapshots, the report highlights trends, both globally and in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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TamilTuesday, October 27, 2009 8:40:00 AM

How did you calculate Cost per MB?
praetor87Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:02:21 AM
I usually use flat-rate internet with my phone/3G modem, so i can't save money with Mini, but i can save time, because my phone is just 2,5G (GPRS). If i have a limited data plan (mobile net for desktop), the Mini is a good chance. Sometimes i buy 30MB (8,3 USD) from my carrier. I switch off the pictures and it's almost enough for a month.
thobiTuesday, October 27, 2009 10:40:39 AM
@tamil
To calculate these numbers, which I question, Opera looked at the top operators in each country, determined how much they typically charge per MB of browsing, and averaged those figures together. The average cost of browsing in each country was then multiplied by the amount of traffic generated in each country, and the resulting totals were summed and compared to the totals for uncompressed data traffic. The big caveat: Opera’s survey only reflects metered rates (cost per MB) and not flat-rate subscription options, which skews the numbers in their favor.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/27/mobile-web-usage-keeps-on-growing-and-growing-and-growing/
Dark FurieTuesday, October 27, 2009 10:59:12 AM
Techcrunch have way too much time on their hands if they're talking about this like it's some big conspiracy to defraud Opera Mini users.

The fact remains that there is no such thing as flat rate internet as networks all have a "fair usage" number of megabytes (between 15MB and 2GB per month) after which they'll start charging more, so Opera Mini does save people money even if they're on so called flat rate data plans. Considering most of these plans charge the full amount again for the data or a premium megabyte charge (much higher than their advertised charges) then Opera Mini probably saves more than they've accounted for here. Anyone in the business knows that.
Charles SchlossTuesday, October 27, 2009 12:36:09 PM
adam664Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:08:06 PM
IKokeTuesday, October 27, 2009 6:04:08 PM
Tommy-vercettiSunday, November 1, 2009 2:46:46 PM
Yea opera mini is the best!!its super fast!i m waiting for 5.0 final release
abhraproMonday, November 2, 2009 6:29:38 PM
Originally posted by Furie:

The fact remains that there is no such thing as flat rate internet

why?in my country i pay rs 498(around 9$)/month and i'm free to use as much as i wish.its igprs and i even used upto 1.5gb.so why could there not be free data plan?
Tommy-vercettiMonday, November 2, 2009 11:03:20 PM
I pay 221 rs(about 5 us dollars) for unlimited 3g
Dark FurieTuesday, November 3, 2009 10:57:18 AM
Which network are you guys on? Because I've dealt with Tata and their bizarre fair usage policy for a friend a little while back.
abhraproThursday, November 5, 2009 6:33:50 PM
airtel.with bsnl its 230.
dont use tata or reliance.they're looting with this fup.protest it
Dark FurieThursday, November 5, 2009 7:15:06 PM
Well Airtel has a fair usage policy on their plans, introduced February/March this year after they'd pulled in a load of customers. There's a petition somewhere on the web against it. I'd look into it if you're a customer as they may screw you over if you don't know about it.