Two giant companies are bidding for the lucrative rights to monitor New Zealand's gaming machines.
The New Zealand-based telecommunications company Telecom and Australian company Unitab, put in a joint tender to the Internal Affairs Department. The job would involve connecting New Zealand's 22,500 non-casino gaming machines to a central monitoring system. This would put the industry within the Gambling Act 2003.
Unitab is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and has a market capitalisation of about $A800 million ($NZ900 million).
Clients include more than half of Queensland's hotels and clubs and an exclusive monitoring licence for the Northern Territory.
Unitab developed its Queensland monitoring system in-house and has more than seven years' experience in the gaming monitoring business.
The International Affairs Department has adopted Unitab's Queensland Communication protocol as its monitoring standard.
Unitab was hailing the bid -- its first step overseas -- as a "significant" growth opportunity.
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