Inside Asian Gaming

April 2008 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 21 A fter surmounting a series of technical obstacles—from handset compatibility to payment systems— over the past four and a half years, mobile gaming solutions provider Spin 3 is poised for high growth as both players and operators become aware of the richness of the gambling experience that can be delivered through handsets. “We’re starting to see very good early signs of very strong growth,” says Spin 3 CEO Matti Zinder of his company’s prospects for 2008. “I think there’s an overall trend towards more and more content usage on mobile phones. The central point for many cell carriers, for many telcos, is that revenues generated from data are larger than they are for voice. Connected with the general global growth in interactive gambling, take those two trends together, and we think we’re in a very good place.” Spin 3 is a division of Spiral Solutions Ltd, which employs 175 staff. Mr Zinder set up Sprial Solutions in 1999 in order to provide value-added services to clients of online software giant Microgaming, who “contracted our services for clients who came to them, but did not have the marketing or business expertise,” he explains. Spin 3 was born of Mr Zinder’s vision of a convergence of the increased popularity of online casino gaming and the predicted exponential growth of the mobile content and entertainment industry in the form of mobile casino gaming. According to Mr Zinder, “a client comes to Microgaming and says ‘I’m very interested in getting into the mobile gaming space. I have the money, I have the contacts, I have the appetite to get into this industry, but I don’t have the skills.’ Microgaming will provide them with the system, then refer them to us, and we provide the value-added services, and obviously some technologies Fully Loaded Boasting an impressive portfolio of graphics-rich games and a complete range of value-added services, Spin 3 offers a total turnkey mobile gaming solution Mobile Gaming