Mobile Gaming the Future?
11th November, 2008
Online gaming in the UK has grown to become a huge industry. Millions take part in sports betting, poker and casino games as well as online bingo. The numbers of operators is in the hundreds and the market is becoming increasingly competitive.
So what's next for e gaming? Well the numbers of gaming companies offering mobile gambling has increased rapidly in the last three years. Mobile technology has allowed customers to surf the internet at high speeds from any location with a phone signal.
Devices such as the Blackberry and I Phone allow users to download games from the net to play in their handset, be it on the train or walking to work.
Juniper Research have recently carried a report which estimates the annual wages bet on mobile phones in 2013 to be at around $27.5 billion. The Basingstoke based research group believe that the improvements in handset technology will see more consumers using their mobiles to surf the net instead of using a PC.
Author of the report, Windsor Holden, 'Operators are demonstrably much more open to the idea of mobile gambling than they were even twelve to 18 months ago both in terms of offering gambling services on-portal and accepting advertising from gambling companies,'
If remote gambling in America was to be made legal this would present a huge market opportunity for operators. It's predicted that the majority of bets will be on sporting events which is still the most popular form of online betting.
By Jamie
