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Rob van der Gaast Gaming Guru - Page 23EL to EC: 'Do Not Deregulate'22 March 2005
The European Lotteries (EL) on Sunday held a high-level conference in Brussels focusing on the impact of the European Commission's forthcoming Directive on Services in the internal market. Members of the EL, the IOC, the Deutsche Sportstiftung (German Sports Foundation), European Foundation Center, U.K. ... (read more)
Turkey Addresses Illegal Online Gambling14 March 2005
Despite having no Internet legislation, the Turkish government is poised to take legal action against foreign Internet gambling operations.
I-gaming has become very popular in Turkey among its population of nearly 70 million people. Roughly US$2 million per month is spent on Internet gambling via credit ... (read more)
Mobile Gambling - A Future Money Machine28 February 2005
Alexander Graham Bell, who in 1876 invented his "electrical speech machine," which we now know as the telephone, could never have imagined that Bell Laboratories would in 1978 begin testing a mobile telephone system based on hexagonal geographical regions called "cells."
Not long after Bell's breakthrough in the late 19th century, U.S. ... (read more)
Betandwin Launches Live Betting Product in Austria, Germany Is Next21 February 2005
Austria-based Betandwin Group last week announced the signing of an exclusive agreement to provide live wagering services to pay-TV network Premiere Austria. Premiere's Austrian subscribers can now wager on any soccer game live using Betandwin's mobile betting facilities.
Premiere, a wholly owned subsidiary of Premiere Fernsehen GmbH & Co. ... (read more)
Sweden's Svenska Spel Goes Internationa9 February 2005
Swedish state-owned gambling operator Svenska Spel has formed an international business unit.
Through Svenska Spel International, Sweden's leading gambling business--with turnover in Europe of 2.2 billion Euro--will focus on commercial cooperation with state controlled or regulated lotteries and gaming operators in Europe and later in other parts of the world. ... (read more)
Slovakian Lottery Company Launches Online Wagering Service24 January 2005
Two weeks after the introduction of Internet sports betting in Slovakia, the new product is being called a major success.
Slovakian national lottery company Tipos, a.s. introduced its Internet sports betting service Jan. 10. Within 24 hours, the new site had received more than 100 player registrations, and that number has increased tenfold since then. ... (read more)
Synopsis of the Dutch I-Gaming Market30 December 2004
Around 487,000 people in the Netherlands (5.3 percent of the Dutch population) participated in real-money Internet gaming in 2004. On average, Dutch gamers spend 35 euro per month on this type of gaming. Yearly spending in the Dutch I-gaming market is estimated to be 144 million euro.
Around 3.4 million ... (read more)
The Hungarian Front22 December 2004
Hungary's largest gambling operator has been engaged for several weeks in one of many battles in the expanding European cross-border gambling war.
Szerencsejáték Rt., a 100 percent state-owned entity and holder of the exclusive rights to sell number draw games, sports bets and prize draw tickets, firmly ... (read more)
Eye on the German I-Gaming Market16 December 2004
The German market is hungry for I-gaming. According to research from Nielson//NetRatings, more than 25 percent of the country's 84 million inhabitants visited entertainment Web sites during October 2004, and during that same period, 6.6 million surfed to gambling Web sites.
To put things in perspective, ... (read more)
A Hidden Treasure or Risky Business?13 December 2004
On the day I read that Sportingbet's share prices jumped to an all-time high of 180 1/2p amid rumors of a Hilton/Ladbrokes buyout, I received a copy of the massive report, "Investing in the Gambling/Gaming Industry - Hidden Treasure or Risky Business?"
The detailed industry report, published by MECN, ... (read more)
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