March 18, 2005
Phone porn set for spike
'MOBILE phone users around the world spent $US400 million ($504 million) on pornographic pictures and video in 2004.
The figure is expected to rise to $US5 billion by 2010, despite the tiny screen sizes, a new survey has found .
The adult entertainment sector was one of the first media industries to take advantage of the world wide web, and its customers were the among the first to get high-speed internet access for downloading X-rated films.
In mobile communications, however, pornography might not do as well as on the fixed-line internet, because the screens are small and download prices charged by telecoms operators are high, research group Strategy Analytics said in a report.
“In 2010 we estimate that expenditure on mobile adult content will represent just 5 percent of total end-user spend on mobile content services,” analyst Nitesh Patel said.'
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Posted by Darren at March 18, 2005 03:40 PM
