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Mobile Gaming Solutions, Ltd. Announces Wireless Partnership
with The Sports Network, Inc.
Dublin, Ireland
Mobile Gaming Solutions Ltd. (MGS) a leading provider of wireless data solutions to the licensed gaming industry, today announced an agreement with The Sports Network Inc. (TSN), in which MGS will enable and support a wireless portal exclusively featuring TSN's global real time sports information. Under the terms of the agreement MGS will format and enable TSN sports content to make it available to virtually any customer with wireless Internet access. "The entire MGS team is extremely pleased to have a partnership with The Sports Network," said Steve Hlas, President of Mobile Gaming Solutions. "As a leader in Internet sports information it is a natural evolution for The Sports Network to move to wireless. By selecting Mobile Gaming Solutions Ltd. to enable their wireless offering they have chosen a leader with experience in technology, content management and sports operations." Added Mickey Charles, CEO and President of The Sports Network, "This is a burgeoning field and certainly represents the wave of the future, the direction in which the industry is headed. As has always been the case with TSN, we want our alliances to be with the very best companies in the industry to ensure a formula for success. We believe that we have found that relationship with MGS and are looking forward to working with them on many wireless projects and applications. It is," he concluded, "a major step forward for us and we are looking forward to it with great anticipation." The wireless sports portal will debut in mid December
2001 and will include features from TSN's award-winning web site, Sportsnetwork.com.
About Mobile Gaming Solutions, Ltd. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in
St. Petersburg FL, MGS is a leading provider of wireless solutions to the
licensed gaming industry internationally. Mobile Gaming Solutions
is a joint venture between betinternet.com, PLC, a publicly-traded
company (“BET.L”), Greyhound Channel, LLC, US Off-Track and
Mobileum, Inc.
About The Sports Network The Sports Network is the nation's foremost international
real-time sports wire service furnishing a plethora of content on a 24/7
basis using state-of-the-art technology. This data includes, but is not
limited to, scores, trends, analysis, news, features, statistics, pre and
post-game reports, box scores, historical data, Las Vegas odds updates,
and very much more. Among its clients are Tribune Media, Knight-Ridder,
Lexis*Nexis, Comtex, Yellow Brix, Screaming Media, Mutual Broadcasting,
Canadian West Interactive, Irish Times, Bloomberg Financial, Comcast, Dallas
Morning News, New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Denver Post, Sunshine
Network, Learfield Communications and hundreds more. www.sportsnetwork.com
is one of the most accessed web sites on the Internet and TSN currently
brands sports pages for sites numbering in excess of 500 while furnishing
satellite transmitted data and online transmissions to a host of organizations
domestically and internationally
Contacts:
Maureen Galeone
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