Report NEWFOUNDLAND Newfoundland: Vital Statistics
Capital: St. John’s Population: 514,536 Land Area: 405,212
sq.km Lt. Governor: John Crosbie Premier: Kathy Dunderdale (PC) GDP: $28.1bn Casinos: 0 Racetracks: 1 Racing Revenue: $487,000 Lottery Outlets: 1,073 Lottery Revenue: $79.3m Charity Gaming Licences: 3,100 (2010) Charity Gaming Revenue: $15.7m VLTs: 1,938 VLT Sites: 468 (bars with VLTs) VLT Revenue: $122.7m Total Gaming Revenue: $201m Online Gaming: N/A Regulator: Ministry of Services
www.gs.gov.nl.ca
deliver the GL20 lottery terminal which complies with specifications and G2S protocols.
David Flinn, IGT executive director, Canada said: “IGT is very pleased with the performance of our games in the Atlantic Lottery and Societe des lotteries video du Quebec markets. IGT is fully Games to System (G2S) compliant in a wide area network. We believe an open G2S based Service Window player user interface is key to delivering new content and allowing for the convergence of lottery business units as well as also facilitating responsible gaming features and information.
due to be completed by mid November with the VLTs deployed by the beginning of 2013. The company was one of the winning companies due to excellent price quality ratio, innovative games and security and integrity of the machines.
Deborah Macpherson, Executive Assistant to the President and CEO at Techlink said: “Techlink has experienced significant growth over the course of the last few years. Today it remains the only true Canadian manufacturer with VLTs in the Canadian marketplace and we hope that the success of our products in the Atlantic Canadian market will result in further growth and opportunity throughout the rest of Canada.”
After a year of development the company launched its new VLT Blast in 2011. It comes with two high definition widescreen monitors and LED artwork lighting and offers traditional casino games, VLT games and even scratch
NEWFOUNDLAND IS STUDYING A PROPOSAL FOR
ONLINE GAMING AS ALC SAYS THE
PROVINCE LOSES AROUND $50M IN REVENUE.
tickets in the one terminal and it comes with the new LaunchIT software platform.
Blast is completely adaptable as a multi game or single game machine and game changes can take place immediately from a central server.
IGT is a long time partner of the Atlantic Lottery and has been providing VLTs since 1990 and under its agreement will
“IGT is very pleased with the
performance of our games in the
Atlantic Lottery and
Societe des lotteries video du Quebec markets. We
believe an open
G2S based Service Window player
user interface is key to delivering new content and
allowing for the convergence of lottery business units as well as also facilitating responsible
gaming features
and information.” DAVID FLINN,
Executive Director, Canada, IGT.
“While the GL20 cabinet was designed specifically for lottery markets the common platform among all our products allows us to offer any one of a number of cabinets based on market needs.”
At the moment the estimated combined market share from Loto Quebec, Alberta and ALC means that IGT has a approximate 45 per cent share of the total Canadian market, Spielo 34 per cent, Bally six per cent, WMS five per cent, Aristocrat five per cent and Techlink four per cent.
Meanwhile, Newfoundland has been studying a proposal for online gaming from the ALC who says the province loses around $50m in potential revenue by not allowing internet gaming. They say revenues from VLTs have decreased since the number of machines was reduced. However, former Premier Danny Williams is against online gambling and says he will vote against it.
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