WAAG: India: Online Casinos
Access is one of the key reasons that the online casino gambling industry has
not really flourished in India – the country is still developing and there are
huge discrepancies between the wealthy elite in the country and the poor and
destitute. The in congruency of wealth means that it would be a gross
overstatement to note that India does not yet have the capabilities of a
full-fledged gambling industry. In fact, the online casinos do accept Indian
gamblers and they do exist, but the lack of widespread broadband has meant that
only the wealthy currently have the computers and internet power to play at the
gambling sites.
There is such an interesting dichotomy in India – the country holds a lot of the
key communications and call centre dispatches for most of the major
international companies in every single industry. Companies in the US outsource
their jobs and calls to India because the rates are cheaper and the Indians are
able to effectively handle the jobs and the country has the manpower to
effectively take calls from the US and Europe. But as far as the online casino
gambling industry is concerned, these are the only possible targets of the
industry because outside of many of the Western imported jobs and tourism there
is not a whole lot of wealth in India and the country’s one billion people are
still in the development process.
At the federal level the online casinos are legal, but at the population level,
the people of India are not yet ready to accept and embrace the internet
gambling industry and all that it entails. Consider that Eastern Europe is only
now starting to see a huge interest from the internet gambling industry and that
is largely because of the influx of high speed internet and the fact that many
Eastern European countries have begun the process of joining the European Union. |