GOCA.com Announces $3,088,381 in Record E-Commerce Revenues for February 1999,
a 49% Increase Over January 1999
Business Editors and Technology Writers
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1999--
GOCA.com Adds Four More Languages to Begin Multilingual Marketing
Campaign
Go Call Inc. (www.goca.com), (OTC BB:GOCA) Tuesday announced that
its Internet casino licensee has experienced a new record in wagering
revenues and begins multilingual marketing campaigns for the Go
Casino.com site by adding the Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese
languages.
Go Call Inc.'s E-commerce division which processes transactions
for Go Casino.com, has set a new record in wagering revenues of
$3,088,381 for the month ended February 1999. This is an increase of
49% from the previous month.
Wagering revenues are the total amount of funds wagered by the
casino players. Since its inception on Sept. 11, 1998, Go
Casino.com's players have wagered $7,124,814. The casino's success
can be attributed to its aggressive marketing campaign that includes a
free Caribbean vacation at Go Call Inc.'s wholly owned Caribbean
Resort in the Dominican Republic, to all new players at the casino.
Gaming research analysts predict online gaming to become a $25
billion market by the year 2002. Some of Go Call Inc.'s competitors
within the Internet gaming market include Cryptologic Inc.
(TSE:CRY.TO), GLC Limited (Nasdaq:GLCCF), Anchor Gaming Inc.
(Nasdaq:SLOT), Harrah's Entertainment Inc. (NYSE:HET), International
Game Technology Inc. (NYSE:IGT), and Starnet Communications
International Inc. (OTC BB:SNMM).
Go Casino.com continues to enhance its services to the casino
players by adding four more languages to the site. The multilingual
marketing campaign will witness the addition of the Spanish, French,
German, and Portuguese languages. Go Casino.com intends to capitalize
on the fastest growing segment of the Internet gaming industry -- that
being the overseas market, by adding other languages in the near
future.
Go Call Inc. is also in the final developmental stages with
INDEXUS(tm) (www.indexus.com), a comparison shopping search engine.
INDEXUS(tm) is a cross between an Internet portal, similar to Yahoo
(Nasdaq:YHOO), Excite (Nasdaq:XCIT), Lycos (Nasdaq:LCOS) or America
Online (NYSE:AOL) and a shopping network such as Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN),
E-Bay (Nasdaq:EBAY), Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL), or USA Network
Inc.'s (Nasdaq:USAI) Home Shopping Network.
Once development is completed, online shoppers will be able to
compare prices on more than 30,000 different items and purchase goods
in their own local area, including refrigerators, stereos, computers,
cars and airline tickets.
In addition, Go Call Inc.'s advertising division, Go Banner
Ad.com, (www.gobannerad.com) now has an advertising network of more
than 6,000 web sites. Link Exchange Inc. (www.linkexchange.com), a
direct competitor of Go Banner Ad.com, was recently acquired by
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) for $250 million. Other competitors
include Double Click (Nasdaq:DCLK) and 24/7 Media (Nasdaq:TFSM).
Go Call Inc. develops, markets and manages secure, progressive
and profitable ventures springing from the Internet entertainment and
E-commerce revolution.
The statements in this news release may contain forward-looking
statements, which involve numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual
results, performance or achievements could differ materially from
those anticipated or described herein as a result of certain factors
and circumstances.
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CONTACT: Go Call Inc.
Ian Smith, 519/651-2121
iansmith@goca.com
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