Norwegian software firm Opera has announced it has pushed past the 100 million mark in terms of mobile users.
90.4 million people now use Opera Mini every month and approximately 15 million people use Opera Mobile each month according to the numbers issued in the firm’s Mobile Web report.
“Experts all have some date when they claim the mobile Web will overtake the PC web — we’re watching that transition now,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder of Opera Software.
Opera, however, says it doesn’t like keeping track of numbers, rather, it prefers to count people. “In the next few years, hundreds of millions of people will take their first baby steps online. They will make their voices heard across their country and around the world. They will not only discover new ideas, but contribute their own,” said Tetzchner.
In an apparent reference to the political protests which have swept Northern Africa and the Middle East, Tetzchner proclaimed that his firm defended those voices and celebrated those ideas.
“It is why we believe access to the Web is a universal right, and no device is more universal than a mobile phone,” he proclaimed.
Next week in Barcelona at MWC, the firm hopes to release new versions of its Opera Mini browser on Android iPhone, J2ME, BlackBerry, Symbian and even the iPad, while Opera Mobile will get new versions for Android and Symbian.
