An oasis for Opera

Sagar Chandna, Country Manager, India.

Photo: Kari Vartdal Riise

The article focuses on how India, with its 10 million new mobile phone subscribers during March, is developing into a larger target market for Opera with our mobile Web browser, Opera Mini. Mobile phones in India is experiencing an explosive growth and it's no longer reserved for those with the necessary recourses, but for everyone (and with 1,2 billion people we are talking about a few consumers).

Out of estimated 80 million Internet users, roughly 50% use Internet cafe's as their online portal, but this is due to the fact that India has not established a wide spread infrastructure, yet. If the 40 million that doesn't have Internet at home begin using the mobile phone as an access point to the Web, well, you can only imagine what kind of potential market this is for Opera.

We established our office in India (blog) more than a year ago, so we're situated right in the heat. Opera's CEO, Jon S. von Tetzchner, had this to say: "The question was not if we should establish an office in India, but when. The country is an oasis for a company like Opera Software."

Watch the video about Opera featuring our very own Sagar Chandna.

Read the full article at Dagens IT (Norwegian only).

Picture series is also available.

Kudos to Aleksander for the summary.