Opera’s mobile web browser can save its users in Britain £40 a year, so Opera claim. They say that their browser is able to compress data by up to 90% meaning that its users download much less data than they would if using a different browser on their mobile. The data is for pay-as-you-go contracts, excluding unlimited data plans.

The 35.6 million people using Opera Mini as their browser collectively saved £5.5 billion. It appears that the news caught on as more and more people are using it as their web browser.

There was an 11.5% increase in Opera Mini users from August to September and with over 15 billion pages viewed worldwide through Opera Mini in September over 227 million MB of data was downloaded.

Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner said "We are on a mission to bring the web to everyone, on their terms. By making the mobile web more affordable, we help democratise it".

"With more than half the world's population using a mobile phone, we can expand the reach of the web in a way that almost defies imagination."

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