New market research carried out by Juniper Research has shown that the mobile casino market could surpass the $8 billion mark withyin 5 years. This, according to the report is due to the massive increase in users and the slow liberalisation of gambling in the US. Mobile gambling is the fasting growing and set to be one of the most profitable markets in the gambling sector.

App Stores powered by Apple and Google are helping mobile gambling to get to the masses, especially after Apple recently permitted gambling apps.

The growing market in Japan with its iPAT service has received the vast majority of worldwide mobile gambling transactions. However providers in the UK are still considered to be the market leaders. This will inevitably changer due to rapidly growing market in China.