Down With the Greedy Mobile Companies
Now that the online casino gambling industry is invading all aspects of players
lives, the mobile gaming providers are wondering why the phone companies are
still living in the dark ages. Mobile online casinos gambling is exploding in
some networks, but barely a presence in others, and the attendants at the Mobile
Entertainment Market Conference in Monte Carlo last week are wondering phone
companies are hindering mobile gaming expansion.
Currently Spain has launched a successful mobile gaming platform in conjunction
with some of the phone companies so that players can actually enjoy the mobile
gaming experience without worrying about hidden and obscene charges. But other
markets that are primed and ready for the advertisement of real-money online
casino gambling sites like suffer from the obscene internet browsing and content
transfer prices.
Slotland.com is currently the leader in online casino mobile gambling content,
and the company is certainly looking to expand. John Lancelet, a spokesperson
for the company comments, “There’s lots of interesting things happening,
especially in progressive markets like Italy. But mobile network providers slow
the pace by making data transfer so expensive and by pretty well excluding
independent content providers from their portals.”
Pretty much all of the mobile gambling online casino companies agree that once
the phone companies agree to loosen the current restrictions, the industry will
explode. But until that time, mobile gambling is stuck in a situation much like
the internet in the early 90’s. Users are unfamiliar with the format, and just
generally not savvy with the technology specifications involved with mobile
online casino gambling and Web surfing on their mobile devices.
Lancelet continues, “Generally, mobile content market today is in a similar
stage to where the internet was in the late 80s and early 90s when AOL, MSN and
similar internet access providers thought that every internet visitor will
access the web through their home portals, and no other pages, and every content
provider would have to advertise and gain customers through their portals only.”
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