Premature Launch for Online Casinos
The French market is not yet open to foreign online casino gambling companies to
offer their services to French gamblers and yet the Zeturf internet gambling
group made the questionable choice to prematurely launch into the French market
with a full-page advertisement in the Metro, a popular and free daily newspaper
in France. The Zeturf advert was allegedly a press release according to both
Zeturf and the newspaper, but it reads just like and advert for the online
casino gambling group and the French National Assembly is not pleased that this
has happened already considering the new French internet gambling regulations
are just a couple months out from implementation.
Zeturf is likely similar to many of the other major online casinos and internet
betting groups that are quite eager to enter the French market and start
generating some revenue on the French gamblers. One key difference from the
other internet gambling groups and Zeturf is the fact that the other online
casino companies showed some patience and self-control in the hope that they
will rapidly gain French licensing once the drafted gambling legislation is
approved.
Zeturf is a Maltese company that provides online casino betting choices to the
international market. The company is really testing the patience of the French
government though with the “press release” and the French Budget Minister has
made sure to point out that right now France has specific legislation in place
that prohibits internet gambling adverts within the country and even when the
new legislation is passed the gambling companies will have strict and limited
access to advertising opportunities. |