Oslo, Norway - Mobile phone Web browser maker Opera on Tuesday released a study that found that 41% of all mobile Web traffic on phones using its software goes to online social networks, including more than 63% of Opera Mini browser traffic in the U.S.

Opera Mini is the world's most popular mobile Web browser, used by more than 11.9 million people worldwide in March 2008 to visit some 2.4 billion Web pages and generate 33 million megabytes of data traffic.

The quarterly "State of the Mobile Web" report also found that full Web surfing -- as opposed to scaled-down WAP or .mobi destinations -- comprised more than 77% of all mobile Web traffic.

In the U.S., the top mobile Web destinations for Opera Mini users were MySpace, Google, MocoSpace, Yahoo and Facebook.

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http://www.opera.com/mobile_report

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