| Personal Economic Benefit. Statistics gathered by the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) indicate that in one year alone over 2,000 people won in excess of one million dollars, and an additional 4,520 won $100,000 or more by playing North American lotteries.
A Voluntary and Regulated Method for Raising Funds for the Public Good. A lottery is the only governmental method for raising funds whereby participants, by voluntary means, can receive a windfall return, and in turn provide much needed respite for state deficits. Conversely, taxation is a compulsory payment to support one’s government, and citizens have no choice about contributing to state revenues.
Supplement current lottery revenues. Due to the increased convenience of purchasing lottery tickets via mobile technology, traditional state lottery revenues will increase by an average of 10% based on deployments in various international jurisdictions.
Better system for addressing problem gambling. In addition to being more convenient, the account-based wagering system, unlike the traditional lottery system, can control the amount and number of times a person plays the lottery.
Land-based games now available on wireless devices. New smartphones allow fun, land-based games such as scratch games, Pick 3, Cash 5—even Powerball and Megamillions— to be played on mobile devices. The mobile lottery will only improve with the advent of new technologies, which are currently being deployed via WiMAX and LTE networks.
Increase in accountability and decrease in lottery fraud. The mobile lottery is an electronic system that tracks all transactions via an electronic system. The days of fraud and lost winning lottery tickets are over!
Ticket security. Usually, when you play the lottery online, you do not receive a paper ticket, meaning you cannot physically lose it. This is a very important advantage as the majority of tangible lottery tickets are “bearer instruments”, which means that whoever is in possession of the ticket is also entitled to the prize it claims.
Many lottery games are simply RNG (Random Number Generation via electronic or live drawings) meaning 90% of the available mobile telephones can play. A numerical input lottery can be played from any mobile device with a key pad either manually, or via an automatic number selecting application. An example of this type of application would be the Power Picker Lottery Number Generator, an application that randomly selects numbers for you right on your phone. Entries can emulate the games themselves or be as simple as a text message. Several countries have combined SMS banking and ATM access to create a cell-phone-based option for playing the lottery. This would work in the United States where lotteries allow the purchase of tickets via ATM/Debit cards. A mobile device entry will also allow for an interactive transaction via televised events with participants sending a text message to a specific phone number for entry. |
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Smartphones now allow instant winner scratch-off games to be played on mobile devices. Mobile Lottery LLC is working with the best game developers in the industry to bring new and innovative games, including scratch-off games, to the mobile devices. For example, a player simply can go to a lottery ticket retailer and purchase a bar-coded entry which gives them access to a menu of instant lottery games on their cell phone. Similar to traditional physical scratch tickets, a player can find out immediately whether they have won or not.
Get your lottery results by text message. Mobile Lottery LLC not only allows players to play the lottery via their mobile devices, but also allows participating U.S. states/countries to receive lottery results by text message at standard mobile operator text messaging rates. Lottery results can also be obtained via a variety of additional social networking mobile sites such as Twitter and Facebook. You will be able to check your lottery results via your mobile device and know immediately whether or not your entry was a winning number. Because the mobile lottery system eliminates the requirement for printing millions of paper tickets that can be lost or stolen, receiving lottery results via text messaging represents an efficient, cost effective and eco-friendly application.
Receive new lottery game alerts by text message. Not only can you receive results by text message, but you can also sign up to receive alerts for new games that may be released by the lottery commission. Location based technology will allow participants in individual states to sign up to receive messages about new games and promotions that are going on with the lottery in that state.
Use your phone to set reminders to play the lottery. If you’re a regular lottery player, then one of the worst things in the world is forgetting to buy a ticket for the $200 million MegaMillons Jackpot. However, a mobile phone’s calendaring and messaging system allows the user to setup ongoing alerts to remind the player of the days that the lottery will be played, therefore greatly decreasing the chance of forgetting to purchase a ticket.
The mobile lottery will compliment NOT replace the current land-based lottery system, so if you still want to purchase a physical ticket, you can utilize the mobile map application to find a lottery ticket retailer near you. You can use your phone’s mobile map systems to find various lottery affiliated merchants located wherever you happen to be at any given time. If you suddenly remember that you need to buy a lottery ticket for that night’s drawing, but are not in a familiar neighborhood, then simply sign on to your mobile web and scan local maps to locate a lottery ticket retailer near you.
Determine legality of cell phone gaming using your phone or the mobile network operator’s Location Based Service (LBS). Your phone’s information is received by the regulated gaming authorities where the user location is determined. If there are any restrictions on playing the lottery based on your location, the player will not be allowed to play the lottery in that jurisdiction. |
