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Porn to Boost Wireless Web Services
Mobile phone users around the world will spend $1 billion a year on pornography sent to their handsets by 2008, which may boost the wireless services sector much as it fueled growth in the fixed-line Internet, a market research firm said, reports Reuters. "In the United States, consumers will be dishing out some $90 million for adult entertainment in four years' time, the Yankee group said in a survey released on Monday. Mobile operators, which are struggling to drive up data traffic as a new source of revenue, have so far been reluctant to cash in on the opportunity. Fear of possible repercussions if pornographic content becomes accessible to children, is holding them back. PhoneErotica.com receives more than 75 million hits to its Web site per week, Yankee said. Most of the users only pay the operator for the air time, since the service is initially free. The entertainment company hopes to get mobile carriers to let it piggy-back onto their billing systems, due to difficulties with credit card payments, Yankee said." |
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