Active user base up 50 per cent year-on-year
Opera Software says the active user base of its Mini mobile browser increased 150 per cent from 20 million monthly unique users in January 2009 to 50 million monthly uniques in January 2010.
It took Opera Mini took 28 months from January 2006 to April 2008 to reach its first 10 million users. The the last 10 million additions took three months from November 2009 to January 2010.
Earlier this week Opera Software said that it intends to show off an iPhone web browser at Mobile World Congress next week.
Opera CEO Lars Boilesen said: "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."
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