If you’re Canadian and a wireless client of Telus Corp., you won’t need HSDPA connectivity to get your daily mobile porn fix. That’s because starting this month, Telus is offering its subscribers pornographic content that can be downloaded directly from Telus.
Telus spokesman Jim Johannsson justifies the offering as a means to curb porn surfing by underaged cell phone users: “[We've] introduced — in a very responsible way — adult content that’s in behind proper age verification and that’s compliant with provincial standards and regulations.”
Inspiration to offer adult photos and videos at a pay-per-download basis came after Telus observed that “on an aggregate level [people are] going to Google or Canoe, and we could see they were heading to adult-oriented Web sites… There is a segment of the population that is interested in that content.” This was consistent to a reuters report in 2005 that U.S. mobile users spent $400-million USD on pornographic content.
When asked about the subject of mobile pornography, Mark Goldberg, a Toronto telecommunications consultant, compares Telus’ new offering to TV’s pay-per-view:
“A huge amount of that is adult programming, and we don’t seem to have concerns about our ability to block children from accessing that.”Frankly, their mobile screen is probably more private than aTV or computer screen. They can keep it in their pocket.”
Source via Mark Evans.
Comments (3)
Pornography usually features naked women degrading themselves. Marvellous, isn’t it, just how many businesses use women’s nudity as a marketing tool? I thought that men selling women’s bodies were called pimps? What does this make Telus? A porn pimp?
Wake up, women in the industry in north america feel bad for the males because they get paid so little and have no real career. The women ARE the industry. Sex sells. Porn makes money. TELUS loves money.. what’s so hard to understand. Oh, and there are plenty of women selling men’s bodies. Equal rights will exist when women can look at themselves as equals.
What a totally disgusting pitch…..porn on your cell phone.Firstly it crosses the bounds of morality and Corporate ethics.Secondly,how many subscribers are now wasting Company time in washrooms watching porn?
I wonder if Telus would fire an employee for watching porn at work?
Telus just lost my internet and phone service accounts.
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