Telenor Makes It Easy To Use Mobile Web Through Opera Mini
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The trend of open mobile Internet on mobile phones is relatively recent, even more so in Pakistan. However the growth, fueled by better browser software and falling data prices, is noticeable. All mobile companies want to offer more reasons for people to use data services, which results in higher ARPU. Mobile Internet is most popular among business persons and innovative people like students, technology enthusiasts etc, who want quick access to Internet right from their cell phone any where. Opera mini is one of the popular mobile web browsers.
Opera Mini powered by Telenor is a good business move by Telenor to encourage more people towards using mobile web services. Opera mini is fast and compresses the data to about 95% so its very easy to download music, visit blogs, check your emails etc. Telenor GPRS (more about GPRS technology toward the end) and EDGE technology (2.5G) was introduced in late 2006. EDGE provides decent speed and performance and offered by others (Mobilink, Zong, Ufone) as we don’t have 3G yet. Online forums are full of discussions about which service has the best speeds etc.
As a reader pointed out in comments, Telenor has planned its market strategy from the beginning around mobile Internet (all their SIMs are preactivated for data). Opera mini service is an extension of Telenor’s push for more data usage.
Note that you should be able to use Opera with other mobile network operators as well — its just that Telenor makes it a bit easy to get it through SMS.
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