“Online and mobile betting business will bring a myriad of benefits”

How many companies showed their interest?
Three companies; and four documents had been sold.

How much is the investment that you think the winner should make?
It is unknown what type of investment the winning company should make, because that will depend on its own structure as an organization. What the institute will hire is a a service, so the company will have to guarantee its correct operation, no matter the investment they made.

Why did the province of Entre Ríos decide to enter in the online and mobile betting business?
The province is connected to the continuous computing development. With decisions like this, it tries to take benefit of the technological improvements that the modern world offers us, such is the case of the complex services that nowadays a cell phone brings.

The project consists in a new modality to recuit with regards to traditional betting administrated by IAFAS. This new modality has a myriad of benefits for Iafas. Among them, there is the reduction of the illegal gaming levels that nowadays keep on existing.
It will be produced due to the easy operation that the player will have. You have to consider that in the province there are approximately 340,000 cell phones.
 
How much money will this business bring to the province?
It is very risky to declare a number at this moment, because, on one hand, it will depend on the degree of penetration of the new modality in the existing games, and on the other hand, on the success due to the introduction of new games. Despite that, we believe that it is an operation that will keep on growing in time and that will generate important resources for the province. It has much to do with the level of growth that has shown the use of the cell phone in recent years, and it is estimated that it will keep on having the same trend.

When do you think this betting service will be in force?
Approximately within the three months after the awarding was produced, the new game modality will come into force.