India overtakes China in Mobile Internet Browsing [Opera Report]

Opera’s latest report sends out a strong signal to the mobile Internet industry – India continued to move up the top 10 list of countries, overtaking China for 3rd place.

The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage for June month are (in order): Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, U.S., U.K., Poland, Nigeria

India Numbers – Mobile Internet

• Page-view growth since June 2008: 357.8%
• Unique-user growth since June 2008: 32.5%
• Page-views per user: 375
  [by the way, Mobile Browsing is a male activity in India!]

Top 10 sites in India (# of unique users)

• google.com
• orkut.com
• gmail.com
• yahoo.com
• songs.pk
• wikipedia.org
• facebook.com
• youtube.com
• my.opera.com
• peperonity.com

Top handsets for June 2009

• Nokia 5130c
• Nokia N70
• Nokia N73
• Nokia 3110c
• Nokia 6300
• Nokia N72
• Nokia 3500c
• Nokia 6233
• Sony Ericsson W200i
• Nokia 5310

[Quite obvious that Nokia rules the handset market in India!]

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[Link to Opera report]