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Thanks go out to Tech Digest for providing us with some industry statistics that we’ve missed. Orange_c550_2 Analysts Informa Telecoms & Media has just published its predictions for the future of mobile phone content sizing up how much the market will be worth in 2010.

The market for erotic content for mobile devices is predicted to be worth $2.3bn by 2010, but realisation of this is highly dependent on mobile phone carriers and content providers working with regulators in order to determine solid controls and age verification procedures. Much of this depends on networks who seem to have an ambivalent attitude towards online adult entertainment. Overall Informa thinks adult entertainment on mobiles will be a lot smaller than has previously been thought.

There’s potential for growth in games which use other phone features (such as camera/GPS).

Mobile gambling to grow from US$1.2bn of annual revenues in 2005 to US$7.6bn by 2010, by which time there will be more than 200 million consumers gambling using their mobiles. Europe will be the big market with lotteries, online poker and basic casino games attracting the highest number of users.

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