Opera’s September State of the Mobile Web features heavy focus on Africa and analyzes metrics of Opera Mini adoption:

In Africa, a mobile phone is a critical communications tool. According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Africa’s mobile phone industry is growing at nearly double the global rate. At the same time, PC-penetration rates remain low and the initial costs high. These factors make the mobile phone Africa’s optimum tool to access the Web, so we decided to take a deeper look at Africa’s mobile Web industry.

Findings and Highlights

• South Africa and Egypt lead the way for mobile Web adoption, followed by Kenya and Nigeria.
• Total mobile Web usage through Opera Mini accounts for almost 5 GB of traffic through Opera Mini servers. Because this data is compressed by almost 90%, Africa would generate nearly 50 GB of data traffic per month uncompressed.
• Swaziland leads the top 10 countries in page views, with each user browsing 293 pages on average each month. Interestingly, the Seychelles lead all of Africa with more than 355 pages per month browsed by each user.
• Growth rates are soaring: Libya leads the top 10 with 3780% growth this year. The largest percent increase since January was Burkina Faso, with 59,000% growth.

Via WA

About the Author: Jonathan Gosier (Founder) is an American-born software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he is working on two fronts: to encourage western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs and to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the internet in the developing regions of Africa. He is a huge advocate for promoting the ways in which a semantic web will benefit emerging economies in the world.

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