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Opening of the French gambling market: Operators get ready
By waiting for the opening of the market of online games on the French territory, operators in this sector already anticipate possible evolutions of the market. Since a few months, unexpected partnership between companies of games like that of Free with Chiligaming or that of the SBM and Mangas Capital were seen. Casino operators who are the main victims of this opening also want to have their place, for it, they decided to dash into the online game. Effectively, in front of the decrease of the attendance of casinos, owed partially to the emergence of websites of online games, it is natural to see them joining this quite new expected market opening recently.
As for both historical operators of the French market, the PMU (Pari Mutuel Urbain) and the FDJ (Française des Jeux), they knew how to benefit from their position of monopoly. Indeed, as both organisms are the only ones authorized to offer gambling games except casinos, they took advantage of it to take a length beforehand in front of possible competitors. The FDJ and the PMU already offer to their players the possibility of validating their tickets on internet and also prepare a wide fan of online games. French players who, up to there, showed a big patience in devoting completely and legally to their passions; can breathe, because the fateful date is farther. The market of online games will be opened before the football world cup in South Africa which is going to begin on June the 11th, 2010. According to estimations, about one hundred licenses will be delivered by the ARJEL in France.
Source: Poker 777
Monday, 28 September 2009
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