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Jon von Tetzchner

Mobile web browsing has been adopted at a fast rate across the African continent reads the State of the mobile world report. “Looking at the continent as a whole sees mobile web usage surging by 182% in the year period, while unique users are up by 124%, and the amount of data downloaded was over 160% higher than it was at the same time last year” writes memeburn.

The most popular handset brand is Nokia, followed by SonyEricsson, Samsung and LG. South Africa stands at the top of mobile web usage. “Beyond the numbers, we see that access to the Web is reshaping the economic, political and social development of the continent” said Jon von Tetzchner Co-founder, Opera Software