Spain's largest lottery organisation ONLAE offers
Navidad, known as El Gordo, or the Fat One, it is the only single lottery draw
in the world to award more than $1 billion in prizes.
Navidad captivates
the entire nation. This can be seen not only in the popular hobby of collecting
old lottery tickets, tickets from the first draw have been known to bring in
excess of US$10,000, but also in ticket numbers that are held, indeed cherised,
by familes. Some familes have reserved the same number for 50 years, passing it
from generation to generation.
Sales during December for the annual
Christmas draw of Navidad account for approximately 23% of total sales for
ONLAE
 STL and
Betware Have Delivered A Research, Development And Innovation Project To The
Spanish National Lottery
Reykjavík, Iceland (July 29,
2008) -- Sistemas Técnicos de
Loterías del Estado (STL) and Betware have developed and delivered an
Internet Solution for the Spanish National Lottery (LAE) enabling LAE to sell
its products via the Internet....................Subscribers
Hughes to Provide Broadband Satellite System for Spanish
Lottery
GERMANTOWN, Maryland, USA (July 8, 2008) -- Hughes
Network Systems today announced that Sistemas Tecnicos de Loterias del Estado
(STL) has awarded its wholly owned subsidiary, HNS Ltd., a contract to provide
a geographically redundant HN System Network Operations Center (NOC), 2800
HN7700S broadband satellite routers, and support/maintenance services for five
years....................Subscribers
Betware Signs Contract
With New Gaming Client
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland (August
22, 2007) -- Sistemas Tecnicos de Loterias del
Estado (STL), the operator of the online systems for the Entidad Publica
Empresarial Loterias y Apuestas del Estado (LAE), the Spanish National Lottery
has signed a contract that makes Betware its interactive gaming service
supplier.........Read the full story at: Vol.40
No.9
The Commission Takes
Spain to the Court of Justice Over its Discriminatory Taxation of Lottery
Winnings
BRUSSELS, Belgium (July 6, 2007) -- The European
Commission has decided to refer Spain to the European Court of Justice for the
way in which lottery winnings are taxed..........Subscribers
European Betting
Association to File Suit Against Spanish Lottery, Loterias y Apuestas del
Estado
MADRID, Spain (October 13, 2005) -- The European
Betting Association (EBA), an association dedicated to the establishment of an
open market for betting within the EU, confirmed that it plans to file a
complaint with the European Commission against state-run Spanish lottery
operator Loterias y Apuestas del Estado (ONLAE) before the end of the
week.........Subscribers
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