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Mobenga expand to Australia with TOTE Tasmania contract

Mobile gaming and content enabler Mobenga has partnered up with Agility Interactive leading provider of advanced technologies for media, gaming and technology to enter the Australasian market.

"We are excited to work together with Agility Interactive to target the Australasian market. They have an impressive knowledge and network in this geography and combined with our experience and expertise we will have a very strong foundation for our offering". Christian Rajter, Mobenga CEO, comments.

Agility Interactive's COO, Dennis Verrios, commented "Agility has had a long history of dealing with mobile products and understand that the secure and timely transactional and intense data needs of wagering make it imperative to find a product suite that was "built for purpose". We are very excited to collaborate with Mobenga and intend to roll their platform out across Asia Pacific".

The partnership has already produced very positive results and has lead to Mobenga having been awarded with a contract for providing full mobile services to TOTE Tasmania.

Mobenga will supply a mobile horseracing and sports betting product that will enable TOTE Tasmania to launch one of the first mobile betting services in Australia. The service is due for launch in 2010 and will feature downloadable JAVA applications, mobile Internet and iPhone specific versions.

The emphasis on the mobile service will be on ease of use for the user and familiarity with popular functions such as "speed betting" and "next race to jump".

To further enrich the mobile services relevant real-time content will be readily available with form guides, tips and scratchings amongst other.

"We see the mobile channel as key to delivering our customers. expectations for access for an "ever-connected" generation of punters. After a thorough evaluation process Agility Interactive, our internet consultants chose Mobenga". Craig Coleman, TOTE Tasmania CEO, said.

Christian Rajter, CEO of Mobenga comments:

"This is a very exciting deal for Mobenga as we continue our strategy to serve operators all over the world. TOTE Tasmania is an impressive and well-reputed company with a clear strategy that will enable them to meet the requirements of a new generation of customers who will want to bet with them at any time and from any place. Together with Agility Interactive we believe that Australia and the Asia Pacific region offers the next major growth area for cutting edge and innovative mobile products."