Women! The mobile internet is no place for you

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Tim Green Jun 20 2008, 11:30am

Men outnumber women on the mobile web by almost nine to one, says Opera Software.

The browser company’s State of the Mobile Web found 88.1 per cent of mobile web users are male. It said 14.7 million people used Opera to browse in May.

Other highlights:

·   Most people using Opera Mini are between the ages of 18-27.
·   More than 14.7 million people used Opera Mini in May to browse 2.9 billion pages.
·   The number of active users has risen more than 23 per cent since March.
·   Opera Mini served more than 43.2 million MB of data traffic in May, up 30.4 per cent since March.

· As Opera Mini serves compressed data to handsets around the world, the actual amount of data requested by people using Opera Mini is more than 288 million MB.

Opera's "State of the Mobile Web" highlights the browsing trends in the ten countries where Opera Mini is most popular: the United States, Russia, China, Indonesia, India, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, South Africa and Ukraine. Opera’s Mini browser runs on more than 800 different handsets.