Thursday, November 25, 2004

Is Gambling on Mobile Phones Finally Starting to Make Waves

After years of threatening to break into the mainstream and with technology that never quite lived up to expectations, mobile gambling may finally begin to take off with the announcement of Vodafone finally launching their '3G' technology and gambling operators starting to take mobiles seriously

Gambling on Mobiles has long since the 'next big thing' for gaming operators but its expectations have never lived up to its potential as small phone interfaces and 'slow connections' made gaming a somewhat painful experience. However, in all that, some operators have had good experiences on mobile phones - especially in the betting and java games arena.

Some figures have predicted that java-based gambling will reach £4bn by 2008. This is bigger than the market for both mobile lottery tickets and betting

As gaming site, Gamesindustry.biz reports:

Mobile games provider, Million-2-1 continues to expand its java-based mobile offering with a new range of fixed-odds games including a Dice game and Hi-Lo - available as both Play-4-Fun and Play-4-Real. They'll follow this up with a horse racing game and a balls/numbers game.
Million-2-1 use a very simple interface and their low-stake games from just a penny have helped them hook into a willing audience. They allow players to 'top up' their accounts from between £3 to £15 maximum per day

In the meantime, the week Zone4Play and Interactive TV Gaming Channel, Avago, announced a tie-up with '3' - the 3G service from Hutchison to offer a Play-4-Real Money fixed odds games on their platform. Zone4Play will provide the games whilst Avago lends its brand name to the service. Zone4Play have had a deal with DITG, Avago's parent group, to provide play-4-fun and play-4-real games to both mobiles and Interactive TV for 18 months.

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