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Bharti Airtel has inked a deal with Opera Software to offer a customized and co-branded version of the Opera Mini mobile browser, available to Airtel's 253 million subscribers across 20 operations in Asia and Africa. "With this deal, over 253 million Airtel customers across countries including India, South Asia and Africa will now be able to leverage Opera Mini's unique proxy-server-based technology to compress data by up to 90 percent and decrease their data transfer costs," a release from Opera reads in part.
Designed for speed and ease of use, Opera Mini is designed to provide fast browsing on nearly any mobile phone. Opera Mini can make browsing up to nine times as fast as client-only mobile browsers on both 2/2.5G and 3/3.75G networks, according to the company. With its small footprint and high level of usability, Opera Mini is designed to provide a consistent user experience across a broad range of handsets. Data services are quickly becoming as important to users as voice services in Africa, where Airtel has 17 operations, said Andre Beyers, the chief marketing officer Airtel Africa. "Our primary drive is to provide the best user experience, no matter what device people use," Beyers said.

Source> http://www.telecomnewsindia.com/2012/06/...a-for.html