Internet is Back in Libya

Political upheavals that occurred in Libya during the year 2011 apparently had an influence on the breakdown of Internet connection throughout the country since February 16.

However, now as the conducive political conditions, especially after the fall of the ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan people can finally re-connected to the web world after a six-month vacuum.

This was reflected in the State of the Mobile Web Report in July 2011 that reported the Opera. In a very short time, precisely since August 20 until now, Opera Mini users in Libya jumped sharply from the previous close to zero.

The data indicated the opposite in Iran. In this country, Opera Mini actually lose the user base to 36%. This is sometimes due to government intervention and restrictions on access by local operators. The number of pageviews was reduced 55% and large data decreased to 58%.

"Imagine you can not connect to the internet for half a year! I myself would not feel comfortable, "said Lars Boilesen (CEO of Opera Software) in his press conference.

"We see clearly that the internet is so closely on the lives of the people [Libya] with the use skyrocketing after a half years can not access it," said Lars.

In the same report, referred to globally in July, users of Opera Mini continues to grow. Total of 121.7 million people used Opera Mini (up 5.9% from June 2011 and 95% from July 2010), visited more than 74 billion pages (10.1% / 150%), and 10.9 petabytes of data transfer (9.6% / 163%).

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