http://www.tjudb.cn/dbgroup/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=KristanLevey 2026-04-06T19:38:43Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.31.1 http://www.tjudb.cn/dbgroup/index.php?title=Gambling_Fever_Spreads_To_Cell_Phones&diff=183855 2021-01-17T20:48:07Z

<p>KristanLevey: Created page with &quot;id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;LAS VEGAS--Cell phones are slowly being turned...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;LAS VEGAS--Cell phones are slowly being turned into one-armed bandits, a &lt;br&gt;panel at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) industry &lt;br&gt;trade show here was told.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In Germany, cell phone users punch in a few numbers and play the&lt;br&gt;lottery; [http://www.fin24.com/Search/News?queryString=parlaying parlaying] a trifecta at the Hong Kong Jockey Club is also only&lt;br&gt;a telephone number away; and in London one of the world's largest online&lt;br&gt;betting companies, Eurobet, offers a tutorial on how to turn a Nokia&lt;br&gt;phone into a betting machine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sweden's Net Entertainment, an online casino developer, is launching a&lt;br&gt;wireless casino game for WAP (wireless application protocol)-enabled &lt;br&gt;phones, some of which have already&lt;br&gt;hit the market. And in the United States, a family-owned business in&lt;br&gt;Colorado called [ wirelesswinnings.com] is&lt;br&gt;testing a way to play blackjack and draw poker for cash winnings--all&lt;br&gt;from a cell phone.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gambling on the [http://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=Internet Internet] is nothing new. It's part of an adult&lt;br&gt;entertainment industry that Jupiter Research analysts say reaches&lt;br&gt;upwards of $6 billion a year. It was only a matter of time before the&lt;br&gt;wireless Web caught gambling fever as well. These wireless gambling&lt;br&gt;sites have appeared relatively unnoticed amid the chaos of a young&lt;br&gt;industry distracted by its own growth.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Alan Reiter of consulting firm Wireless Internet &amp; Mobile Computing&lt;br&gt;said the wireless industry has yet to really face the issues surrounding&lt;br&gt;gambling. There are questions about what controls should be put in place, if&lt;br&gt;any.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There are also the murky legal waters of whether a company in the&lt;br&gt;United States, where gambling is for the most part illegal, can even&lt;br&gt;offer such a service. The panel at the [ CTIA] annual convention&lt;br&gt;is likely the first to try and address such issues about adult&lt;br&gt;entertainment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was also arguably the most controversial panel out of dozens of&lt;br&gt;others that tackled topics like mobile commerce and how to bill a customer&lt;br&gt;for content. In fact, sources said, the CTIA at first didn't want to&lt;br&gt;convene the panel, but ultimately relented.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Unfortunately we haven't solved the problem,&quot; Reiter told a crowd&lt;br&gt;of three dozen. &quot;But this is at least a start.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One of the panelists was Richard Ekstrand of Rural Cellular, a provider&lt;br&gt;with 600,000 customers in 14 states. His company generated about $356&lt;br&gt;million in revenue last year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rural Cellular is among the group of smaller providers that is feeling the&lt;br&gt;pinch of dropping cell phone rates and hoping to make up for it with new&lt;br&gt;services. The pressure to find new revenue sources, Ekstrand said,&lt;br&gt;is very real. Entertainment and even gambling are viable alternatives,&lt;br&gt;he said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Because of their small size, Rural Cellular and other &lt;br&gt;smaller carriers &quot;can be more creative, more aggressive,&quot; with their&lt;br&gt;content offerings, he said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ekstrand said he hasn't been approached by content providers to offer&lt;br&gt;gambling, but he is expecting the day to come.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Frankly, I don't see what's wrong with it,&quot; he said. &quot;It's real. People&lt;br&gt;are going to demand it. By making it available, are you encouraging&lt;br&gt;people to do it? No. You still have a choice.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The lesser of two evils&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ekstrand is facing his own choices, too. Given the option between&lt;br&gt;offering porn, which is growing in popularity on the wireless Web, or&lt;br&gt;gambling, he'd choose gambling. It seems the more socially acceptable of&lt;br&gt;the vices.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;It's easier to deal with gambling than porn materials,&quot; he said. &quot;It's&lt;br&gt;kind of like the argument between marijuana and alcohol. One is illegal.&lt;br&gt;The other is not. One is more socially acceptable. The other is not.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But others aren't so accepting. Ray Soular, chairman of SafeSurf, a Web&lt;br&gt;filtering company, is asking wireless sites to start offering ratings,&lt;br&gt;along the same lines as how movies are rated. The same type of rating system&lt;br&gt;never worked on the Internet, where the number of Web sites swelled into&lt;br&gt;the tens of millions.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But the number of wireless sites is still at a manageable level, so a&lt;br&gt;rating system wouldn't be too late, Soular said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charles Gertech, a director at consulting firm&lt;br&gt;Mainspring, said wireless gambling presents the wireless Web with&lt;br&gt;the &quot;classic Internet problem&quot; of whose laws govern what actions.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Because a consumer in America can access a Web site run in London, for&lt;br&gt;example, what laws apply? Is it the United States' strict gambling&lt;br&gt;rules or Britain's? 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