By David Altaner & Elisa Grabbe
If Germany opened its online gambling model to allow every qualified applicant to get a licence, only 8 percent of players would patronise illegal sites, a researcher said last week.
Opening the market to all capable operators — like Denmark did — would boost tax revenues, keep
jobs in Germany, and improve protection of consumers and players, said Iris Henseler-Unger of WIKConsult, a German consulting group that examines infrastructure.
Henseler-Unger, an economist and former telecommunications regulator, was speaking last week in
Berlin at a conference sponsored by ECO, the Association of the German Internet Industry.
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