| | |  | Last Updated: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |  | | | Mobile Gambling for the Next Generation
- Monday, 6 Feb 2006
The latest attempt to make gambling more accessible and more widely accepted is Mobile Gambling. This new innovation has the potential to reach millions, and industry analysts are already predicting huge revenues by 2009. Mobile gambling allows casino players to gamble anytime, anywhere, even in states where gaming is prohibited. Mobile Gambling has been available to European casino players for the last few years. Its popularity is now increasing in the United States, with industry analysts keen to extol the virtues of this new breed of gambling.
While attractive to those who have already enjoyed casino games at online or live casinos, Mobile Gambling is expected to encourage a new generation of casino fans to try their luck over the airwaves. A casino fan can simply pick up his cell phone, download a game and make real bets on the action. Some sources have already predicted that Americans will have spent an estimated twenty billion dollars on Mobile Gambling alone by 2009. Its popularity has been attributed to the fact that most people own personal cell phones, which makes accessing casino games via mobile gaming simple.
Currently most platforms only offer slot machine games and a few varieties of poker, but new games are already being prepared for their transition from the computer screen to the cell phone. Like any new product though, Mobile Gambling doesn’t come without a few drawbacks; one of the major disadvantages for state governments being the inability to collect profits for taxation purposes.
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