Opera Software and Russian federal mobile operator, MegaFon clicked a deal under which MegaFon''s special package "Unlimited Internet with Opera Mini" will be available to over 53 million subscribers.

MegaFon claims to the leader in mobile internet market in Russia with over 39 % share in terms of mobile web traffic.

"According to our statistics, the traffic amount generated by an Opera Mini subscriber is twice more than any other MegaFon user generates," said Aleksey Ivlev, Head of new products and services, OJSC MegaFon. "This package got great interest, and the number of Opera Mini package unique users increase by 10-15 percent monthly".

"Opera Mini helps mobile operators to build an active mobile web user community and to make them loyal," said Mikhail Ilin, Sales Director of Opera Software, Russia and CIS. "Keeping in mind the popularity of Opera Mini browser in the Russian-speaking Internet segment, we expect a significant growth in user numbers."