An Once or Twice to throw the dice
Is a gentlemanly game,
But he does not win who plays with Sin
In the Secret House of Shame
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Goal
The New Technology Train just does not stop on a day like today!!!!!
Just when I thought I had covered all the bases with
my blog article entitled “
AWC Fail, PSN Hack and Nokia Layoff – Murphy Law in a Clash of The Titans” that made the connection between the Great Cloud Failure of 2011 at AWC (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Failures and the lack of Security in these Cloud Networks with the seventy seven million (77,000,000) Sony PSN (PlayStation Network) hack (people, is me do it!!! Just kidding?)!!
This via the migration of their Proprietary 2.5GHz Network to a Cloud-Based Mobile Gaming Platform powered by the Big Three (3) Telecom Providers. A first in
Jamaica and officially one of the few proponents of Cloud-Based Computing in
Jamaica!
“Taste-and-buy is ok” as my Seventh Day Princess Audia Granston would say, guiding me with her manicured nails, screaming for Jesus and God to come and Bless her,
Rihanna S&M Style !
Good to know that with Seventh Day Adventists, Taste-and-buy is reciprocal and come in so many delightful flavours at you Local Gas Station!! I SERIOUSLY need to write a blog or book on SDA Christian Coitus, as it would be a help to non-Adventists like myself interested in getting into their Holy Temples!
Effectively the JA$425-million (US$5-million) expansion thrust is contracted to be carried out by Gaming Equipment Provider GTECH Corporation, will be a double whammie to increase their flagging revenues and combat illegal Cash Pot Gaming by making Gaming on Mobile smartphones ubiquitous.
So says
Supreme Ventures Ltd CEO Brian George, who in an interview with
Alicia Roache of
The Jamaica Observer stated as much, saying quote: “This will be of the greatest assistance in the fight against the illegal Cash Pot trade and the resilience and recovery of the network after natural disasters. Given that GPRS technology is cellular Based, it will also help to facilitate online betting and direct top ups”.
In case this sounds all too familiar, it does. I wrote not more than three (3) proposal
blog articles suggesting the very same idea:
Legal hurdles remain to the implementation of what is effectively Blackberry Gambling, as it would be all to easy for under age gamblers to access what is effectively a Cloud Based Network using Mobile Phones.
Clues are again dropped in the words of
Supreme Ventures Ltd CEO Brian George, in the interview with
Alicia Roache of
The Jamaica Observer, quote: “This would include the significant upgrade of the central system, the continuous upgrade and expansion of our base of lottery terminals and agents and recently we, with our technology partner, upgraded our communication network to a GPRS-Based Network to replace the propriety network previously installed”.
But it is the Telecoms side of things that interest Telecoms Technicians and persons such as myself who used to work in the Telecoms Field.
So, armed with the above info, time for the 411, folks!!
Thus,
Supreme Ventures Ltd may choose to model their Cloud-Based
Mobile Gaming Platform on
Bank of Nova Scotia Cloud-Based Mobile Banking Platform, with Gamblers using Blackberrys or other smartphones to access their Gaming Platform via an app for which one has to register at either the Gaming Shop or select locations so equipped.
Possibly,
Supreme Ventures Ltd may Rent or simply use Internet Access from this island wide Fiber Optic Network as Backhaul to run their businesses.
Just as Telecom Provider
Digicel soon-to-be-owners of Telecom Provider
CLARO and their 3G ad LTE Networks, will use same island wide Fiber Optic Network to provide backhaul for 3G and LTE deployments.
Gradually as the five (5) years of the expansion of their Cloud-Based
Mobile Gaming Platform wears on, smartphone adoption and interest in Internet Usage should increase.
At least so goes the Logical thinking!
Thus, eventually, at the end of the five (5) years, when the most of Jamaica located near to one of the three hundred (300) earmarked as a Fiber Optic Network Node and Jamaica have “free” Internet Access, any
Supreme Ventures Ltd location can issue apps to smartphones to do Mobile Gaming.
The mention of a “GPRS-Based” Network is really a code name (or
Supreme Ventures Ltd CEO Brian George is clueless?!)
alluding to Telecoms Providers 3G and 4G Networks respectively, as GPRS (Global Packer Radio System) is no longer in use in Jamaica, especially as the article mentions providing other more Web-centric services.
Media-obfuscation at its best!!
But this blog reveals all as “GPRS-Based” is just really Mobile Internet on smartphone!
Religion and Gambling on smartphones does not mix! Expect to see the Churches attack first!
And yes, they may opt to go for support on all of the Big Three (3) Telecom Providers as opposed to just Telecom Provider
Digicel, being as they sell Mobile Phone Cards for all three (3) Telecom Providers.
Seriously Expect to see the Churches attack first, and VERY strongly too!
Payments would be done the same as was done on the
Go-Play Platform, with bets being placed via the Cloud-Based
Mobile Gaming Platform.
Makes payments easier too, as you winning go straight to your bank account as opposed to having to go in person and collecting your cash!!
You could just send them your picture via the phone to fulfill the requirement of having your picture plastered in the Media!!
This would mean that
Supreme Ventures Ltd Cloud-Based Mobile Gaming Platform would have to make arrangements to interlink with
Bank of Nova Scotia Cloud-Based Mobile Bank Platform to create a seamless way for customers to use their Bank Accounts to pay for their Bets without risking exposing their Debit Card PIN or Credit Card number being transmitted over a Telecoms Providers 3G Network.
But aside from spurring an increase in convenient betting for the more Internet savvy Jamaicans, by deploying a Cloud-Based
Mobile Gaming Platform, benefits abound for Mom-and-Pop Businesses as well.
Any computer can be used with their proprietary printer/scanner to print/check Tickets, as opposed to the proprietary POS (Point of Sale) Terminals.
This would significantly lower the cost of deploying a Gaming or Betting Shop but also increase the number of small Mom-and-Pop Enterprises that wanted to get into selling Lotto Tickets and Phone Cards but could to be bothered with the paying of rental fees for hosting the equipment at their Business.
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