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Autotote Wins Jamaica Online Lottery Contract8 January 2001NEW YORK – (Press Release) -- Jan. 8, 2001 -- AUTOTOTE CORPORATION (Amex: TTE) announced that the Jamaica Lottery Company Limited (JLC) has chosen Autotote Lottery Corporation and its affiliate Scientific Games, both Autotote subsidiaries, to supply 750 EXTREMA(TM) terminals, an AEGIS(TM) on-line lottery system, and support services for five years. The contract, valued at $10.9 million, also contains three options, each allowing a two-year renewal. Lorne Weil, Chairman and CEO of Autotote, said, ``We are excited about working with the JLC to implement this important upgrade to its lottery system. The Jamaica Lottery Company has plans to aggressively expand its system, making use of the latest technologies like IP enabled radio networks and the Internet, both of which must communicate with our central system. We will work very closely with them on these initiatives to ensure the most efficient rollout possible and we are looking forward to a long and rewarding relationship.'' Howard Mitchell, Chairman of the Jamaican Lottery Company, added, ``This contract is the beginning of the deployment of a world class lottery system that will be capable of offering more products and services to an expanded retailer base. Autotote/Scientific Games was chosen because it offers innovative, leading edge technology, that provides us with the capacity to accomplish our objectives as we begin the next decade of operation under our recently renewed license.'' AUTOTOTE CORPORATION is the leading integrated supplier of instant tickets, systems and services to lotteries, and the leading supplier of wagering systems and services to pari-mutuel operators. It is also a licensed pari-mutuel gaming operator in Connecticut, Holland and Germany and a major supplier of prepaid phone cards to telephone companies. Autotote's customers are in the United States and more than 60 other countries. |