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Mobile Casinos: A Window of Opportunity
Russias cellular operators realize that the
non-voice services that they can offer their subscribers are a real
goldmine of future profits. Currently the revenues from non-voice
services, the most popular of which is, of course, SMS (short message
service), amount to approximately 10% of the total. And while this
figure is quite admirable, there is still a way to go.
In order to attract the widest circle of subscribers, the cell network
operators and their affiliated companies have come up with new services.
Among the most recent ones are Mobile Bodyguards offered by
MobileTeleSystems, the SMS service, announced by BeeLine, for lovers of
Russian history, which can be easily used as a crib by high school and
university students, and mobile casino for MegaFons clients. And while
MegaFon, Russias third largest and fastest growing cell network
operator, was the first to offer mobile casino service, it certainly
wont be the last.
Considering how thriving the online casino segment of the Russian
Internet is, it was only a matter of time before somebody came up with
the idea of offering the same thing to mobile phone users, stuck in
traffic, out at the country house, on the subway or anywhere else for
that matter.
Last week saw the announcement of the first mobile casino, which is
independent from all operators and therefore open to all mobile phone
users.
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entire article at:
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