Opera, Airtel partner over Africa

Opera, Airtel partner over Africa
Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
07 Jun 2012

Opera Software has signed a global deal with Bharti Airtel. The agreement will see a customised and co-branded version of the Opera Mini browser made available to Airtel customers in 17 African countries (as well as across India and South Asia).

Opera Mini currently has 168 million users worldwide, and uses unique proxy-server-based technology to compress data in order to shrink the pages before they are delivered, while still retaining the functionality of a normal Web page.

Opera CEO Lars Boilesen says Airtel's presence in emerging markets, combined with Opera's compression technology, will help make the mobile Web available to millions of new users.

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