Phantom Fiber
Signs License Agreement with New Media Lottery Services
Strategic deal further strengthens
Phantom Fiber's wireless platform reach into lottery
and enhances New Media Lottery Services' offering
with state governments.
Phantom Fiber Corporation ("the Company")
(OTCBB:PHFB), the leading developer of wireless
platform software, is pleased to announced that
it has signed a five-year license agreement with
News Media Lottery Services Inc. ("NMLS"),
the leading technology management firm specializing
in new media sales applications for the lottery
industry. Under terms of the agreement, the Company
will enable NMLS' suite of lottery games for use
on mobile lottery terminals owned and operated lotteries
authorized by state governments. In addition, New
Media Lottery Services Inc. is expected to list
in the very near future.
NMLS' core business is divided into two segments
which includes the development and supply of lottery
management systems and the development and supply
of new lottery games. Management systems provide
state authorized lotteries with all the accounting,
distribution, sales and management tools necessary
to effectively and efficiently sell lottery products
via Mobile, Internet, and Interactive TV devices.
NMLS' management system is scalable to allow for
multiple users and a full-menu of lottery gaming
products - gaming products which are modular and
allow clients to select from a full compliment of
game formats, themes and styles. In addition, the
core management team is composed of experienced
lottery industry professionals who have positioned
NMLS as the premier operator of lottery programs
for mid-sized lotteries.
NMLS plans to offer dozens of video lottery games
plus multi-million dollar progressive jackpots in
contracted countries across mobile, Internet, and
retail channels with jackpots in excess of $2 million
per week and also plans to partner with charity
lotteries in many markets to gain first-mover advantage.
Initial mobile plans involve the deployment of mobile
lottery terminals powered by Phantom Fiber's Advanced
Wireless Platform to capture immediate lottery revenue
using NLMS lottery management systems and game products.
Mobile lottery terminals will be used in retail
and public locations to sell lottery tickets to
consumers in a number of select markets.
A recent Juniper Research report has concluded
that mobile gambling revenues will total $19.3 billion
by 2009, exceeding the forecast of $2 billion for
2005. Furthermore, lotteries will account for the
largest portion of revenues totalling $7.9 billion
since governments are less censorious about lotteries,
as noted by Dr. Windsor Holden from Juniper. He
further concludes that the ubiquitous nature of
the lottery culture requires only a small percentage
of players to use mobile handsets in order to generate
the revenues forecasted for this segment of mobile
gambling.
Jeff Halloran, President and CEO for Phantom Fiber
stated, "We are excited to be working with
NMLS on their aggressive mobile lottery initiatives.
With a top-notch management team already in place
and secured long-term contracts with lottery programs
in several regions across the world, NMLS is perfectly
positioned to take advantage of Phantom Fiber's
Advanced Wireless Platform to extend its lottery
game and management systems in retail channels.
On the horizon, NMLS plan to offers multi-million
dollar progressive jackpots through contracted countries
which would allow consumers to use their mobile
lottery application on over 1000 mobile devices
already supported by our Advanced Wireless Platform.
For consumers, wireless lottery is a winning ticket".
Randy Brownell, COO for New Media Lottery Services
Inc. said, "We chose Phantom Fiber because
their proven advanced wireless platform was already
deployed in live wagering environments with significant
partners in other gambling verticals. Our short-term
objectives always included mobile lottery as a significant
part of our business strategy to secure early-mover
advantage in contracted markets and help leverage
new opportunities in other markets. The total addressable
international lottery market of $120 billion is
wide-open for both companies to capitalize on the
emerging mobile lottery segment with core competences
that other competitors cannot even entertain for
the foreseeable future."
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