 Info
about gambling and online casinos in general
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Mobile
gambling
Mobile gambling refers
to gambling done on a remote wirelessly connected device. These
devices can include wireless tablet PC's, mobile phones and other
non traditional mid-level networked comuting devices. Some online
casinos and online poker cardrooms offer mobile options.
Mobile gambling requires a data connection
to operate and in most cases this data layer is provided by the
telecom provider for the region or country. GPRS, GSM Data, UMTS,
I-MODE are all data layer technologies upon which mobile gambling
depends.
While still relatively underdeveloped,
analysts place the value of the market space at US$20 billion
by 2010. Jupiter, Gartner and Seymour Pierce all project rapid
growth in the sector through to 2010.
The market is still in its nascent market
at the moment, as mobile operators and brands/ media owners are
not in a position to create this market at the moment due to the
potential reputational risk. This is mainly because of the uncertain
nature of most countries' in-decision towards regulation of remote
gambling online gambling.
Some companies however have begun developing
and testing mobile platforms to position themselves early in the
anticipated growth of the market.
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