MUMBAI: Norway-based Opera Software is exploring opportunities to partner set top box manufacturers in India which will allow DTH, IPTV and cable subscribers to access Internet via TV.

"It is a good time to get into this (digital devices space)...We would look at partnering someone like say Huawei to build our browser onto their platform," Opera Software Sales Director (India and SAARC) Sunil Kamath has been quoted as saying.

The company feels the cable digitalisation in India will throw up big opportunities as every cable television household will have to avail STBs by 2014 in order to access channels.

Opera has recently partnered telecom operators like Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular to distribute a co-branded Opera Mini mobile phones.

"Such tie-ups help us reach out to more consumers and gives us another distribution channel," Kamath said.

"India is a strategic market for us. We support 14 Indian languages and we are confident that we will continue to see the strong growth that we have seen in the last few months," he added.