Patent ID: 8103550

Claim:
A lottery telecommunications system, comprising: at least one lottery point-of-sale terminal having two or more network-agnostic connecting devices; a first telecommunications network being either a wireline network including the at least one terminal as a subscriber or a wireless network having a radio coverage that includes the at least one terminal, with the first network being capable of communication with at least one of the connecting devices, the first network having performance standards associated therewith; a second telecommunications network having a radio coverage that includes the at least one terminal and at least one of the connecting devices; a terminal user interface for receiving lottery transaction selections and network configuration settings for the at least one terminal; and programming associated with the at least one terminal for checking the availability of the first network and, upon detecting a failure of the first network to meet the associated performance standards, shifting terminal communication from the first network to the second network, and further shifting terminal communication from the second network to the first network upon detecting that the first network again meets or exceeds the associated performance standards.