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PKF Online Services have been invited to join a number of experts at the next conference on mobile gaming.
The event is hosted by Informa a specialist in broadband m-commerce which has pioneered a 3 day conference in Brussels starting on 25 the October at the Crowne Plaza. Some may well ask what is the potential of mobile games in this age of vastly changing technology. The answer is not easy to give as most of the industrialised countries are converging on the third generation broadband platform.
Without any doubt mobile entertainment is a newly emerging and fast developing sector and one that mobile operators, as well as content suppliers, are to some extent pinning their future hopes on. Evidence of this success story is that global mobile phone shipments rose to 703 million units in 2004, up 23.3 percent from 570 million in 2003.
Now that all teenagers in technologically-advanced nations have mobile phones, the market is getting ever younger. Within this area, playing games on mobile devices is considered one of the most popular activities, and already shows signs of rapid and lucrative growth. Certainly mobile services are likely to grow to become an astronomically successful form of revenue generation.
An authoritative report has examined the growing market opportunity for these services and how each of the key areas will develop. In practice users would normally register by posting an account separate from the mobile device .This account can be replenished either by vouchers much like pre-pay mobiles or by credit/debit card over a fixed line phone. But what can be the social dangers of allowing minors an unchallenged access to gaming over the mobiles?
Here national regulators are keen to make sure that operators ensure that sufficiently robust authentication is in place to prove that applicants are of legally eligible age.
Identity theft and crimes resulting from obtaining passwords to get at information held on corporate networks or into someone personal account has never been greater.
These problems and other issues will be explored by the panel of speakers at the forthcoming conference in Brussels. For more information one may contact Jessica Williams on Jessica.Williams@informa.com.
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