Worldwide adult content revenues are poised to top $1 billion this year and double to $2 billion by 2009, according to a recent Juniper Research paper. Asia and Europe are the leading consumers due to their high speed networks, and I would guess, their taste for the people without clothes.
According to the report, American cell phone providers, undoubtedly the Canadian providers as well, will not be loosening their control over Internet access on your cell phone that’ll allow for downloading of this adult content.
According to the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.), telephone carriers are not allowed to censor what people say over the telephone, what phone numbers they call, and what sites consumers visit on the Internet. However, the F.C.C has said that no rule governed what content the carriers could sponsor and sell themselves. The result is that providers can create multi-tiered Internet plans then decide how much access each tier has to the Internet.
In a related Yahoo news article, the North American market could reach $400 million by 2010. But, in all likelihood, those people downloading such content will not be obtaining their images, streaming videos,and moantones in the traditional way they get their other mobile services.
Instead, high-tech porn aficionados will probably be pulling down the stuff via their phone’s web browsers and having a restriction-free mobile Internet account with their provider.
And as we all know, those type of accounts are not cheap.
