Originally published on July 8 2006 - TheOnlineWire.com
Wireless poker and sports betting, online gambling goes mobile
Wireless sports betting © Jaroslaw Grudzinski - FOTOLIAOnline gambling opponents’ worst nightmare has come true. Sports bettors can now wager online via their cellular phone or their pda, anytime, everywhere. New technologies relegate internet wagering in the back seat and confine phone wagering to the dinosaurs age.

Placing a bet via your cell phone or playing poker on your pda may sound like science fiction but its not. Online sportsbook BetCRIS.com is the leader in mobile sports betting while software developer Phantom Fiber recently launched a wireless poker application.

Sports betting mobile software works with WAP and any carrier network standard, CDMA and GPRS. As long as there is data service in your area any user can place a wager via his or her mobile phone or pda.

Full 128-bit end-to-end encryption technology is used during wireless transactions to ensure users’ personal information/data is safe between their mobile device and the gaming company servers. Users account information resides on back-end systems, not on the mobile software.

What does it take to place a bet via a mobile phone? "Register an account online and download our free mobile software.” says BetCRIS.com IT manager "Once you register for an account through our website, you can use the same account information to login through our mobile software."

The only additional charges wireless sports betting users may incur include data fees (per amount of Kbytes transferred), data plan fees (flat rate unlimited data wireless plan) and roaming fees. BetCRIS.com IT management recommends to always check with carrier network providers for details and fees.

Thanks to this new technology anyone can place a bet online as long as their cellular phone is Java enabled and has WAP browsers.