Opera Mini, one of the world’s best mobile web browsers, continues to grow and impress us. In March 2009, more than 23 million people used Opera Mini and those users viewed more than 8.6 billion pages. I think global operators would love to know this: Opera Mini already served 148 million MB of data to handsets worldwide!

The growth in data transfers also highlights the value Opera Mini offers global operators. In March 2009, Opera Mini served 148 million MB of data to handsets worldwide. Since February, the data consumed went up by 19.3%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed 90% on average. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed nearly 1.4 PB of data in March. Since March 2008, data traffic is up 319%.

Opera Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. The full State of the Mobile Web report is available from http://www.opera.com/smw/.

[via IntoMobile]