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Usage of Opera Software's mobile-phone Web browser, Opera Mini, is picking up quickly in Africa, having increased by 180 percent from January to September of this year.

"Month after month, we have witnessed our usage numbers in Africa skyrocket," Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner said in a news statement. "This tells us that change is underway, and more people now have the ability to access the Internet from locations that were previously unthinkable."