PremierBet\’s customers will now be able to place sports bets, manage their accounts and review bet results, directly from their mobile phones.
“The new mobile service allows customers to bet anytime and anywhere providing full online betting functionality, including accessing their accounts and review of results, through the convenience of their mobile phone. This new offering has been fully integrated with our Orbis platform,” commented Thomas Taule, Chairman and Chief Executive of Interactive Gaming Holdings, parent company of PremierBet.
“This is a strategic differentiator for IGH and will allow the Company to maximise betting activity in advance of the Football World-cup in June 2006. Mfuse technology is well proven within the marketplace and we are confident that, over time, mobile gaming will generate significant revenues for the Group and increase the average monthly wager per player,” added Taule.
“We are delighted to have entered into an agreement with Interactive Gaming Holdings. The service is very simple to manage and customers will be able to place bets from their mobile phones from anywhere where there is network coverage,” said Charles Palmer, Co-Founder of Mfuse.
Elsewhere, FUN Technologies has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fanball UK, has signed agreements with three European web-based companies to provide them with fantasy sports games and content, which will include a new World Cup fantasy skill game. The deals have been signed with Tiscali UK, Goal.com and Underground Digital Media. Fanball will build, host, operate and maintain online fantasy sports websites that will be accessible via links from the partners\’ websites. All three sites should be launched before the start of the World Cup Finals in June of this year.
Dynamite Idea, the innovative fixed odds e-gaming developer, has teamed up with Vernons Football Pools to launch a suite of innovative fixed odds betting games, which will be integrated into Orbis OpenBet system.