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"Broadband Fuels Online Gambling Boom"

Broadband Internet connections help the popularity of online gambling.

In February 2005 alone, approximately 14 million Europeans visited and gambled on an online gambling and sweepstake Internet site. France and Sweden registered as the countries with the highest number of Internet gamblers. Internet gambling is also catching on in the south of Europe, but it is still much less popular and only 10 percent of the population of Spain and Italy has so far visited a gambling or sweepstakes site.

As the availability of broadband technology increases, so Internet gambling is becoming more and more popular across Europe.

Another country that has been hit by online gambling fever is Britain, with the increasing availability of broadband, once again, fueling the Internet gambling industry’s growth. The Internet research company, Nielsen/NetRatings, reports that 3.2 million Britons visited gambling sites in February. This amounts to a 45% increase over the number of gambling site visitors last year at the same time.

According to the Nielsen/NetRatings, the range of gambling, betting and online casino sites has fueled the incredible growth in the UK’s gambling industry, although the National Lottery still remains the most popular gambling site. During February 2005, over 1.3 million visitors accessed the National Lottery Site. Nielsen/NetRatings studied the top Internet gambling websites accessed by UK gamblers and their results are as follows:

The National Lottery

William Hill

Partypoker.com

Ladbrokes

Pacific Poker

Cyberslotz

The Gaming Club

Golden Palace Online Casino

Vernons

An Internet analyst for Europe, Gabrielle Prior, said that survey results indicate that UK gamblers like the speed and convenience of betting online. Three quarters of the online gamblers in the UK use high a speed Internet and spend an average of 20 minutes online. Users with slower connections spend an average of 29 minutes online.

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