Casino on the
go
With the boom of the Internet and the online casinos, last year
over 7 million Americans have logged in and wagered online. With
the rapid development of the cell phone industry now many
companies offer internet services on mobile phones and PDAs.
Even ESPN got a piece of the action offering live ESPN TV on
your cell phone. With this in mind, the future of the gambling
industry in this sector is clear - there ought to be a way
to wager on your cell phone. Right now the only online casino
offering betting on this way is William Hill. However they offer
only 3 casino games so far - a game of slots, blackjack and
video poker, from informative websites such as
video poker coach and many
others. You can download this games and play them on your
cell phone using your William Hill account. Would this be the
future for the online casinos? Not for a while. There is the
fact that in US placing bets over the phone is illegal, and the
fact itself that these casino games are located on your phone,
and you use the phone to play them, could overshadow the fact
that you actually are using the Internet to do so. Even if the
US follows the WTO decision and deem online gambling legal,
we might not see cell phone gambling for at least a few more
years. Despite that, there are many online casinos currently
developing cell phone and PDA versions of their software,
because one it becomes legal - it will follow the ring tones
into one of the most profitable mobile businesses.