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Mobile porn brings Japan's phone network to its knees
Jake Widman
Tuesday, 07 July 2009 01:47
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The porn companies themselves are pretty sure of what kind of movies, though. According to Bloomberg, Japanese pornography providers Hokuto and Soft on Demand credit sales to mobile phone users with driving their growth."We see the mobile phone as potentially a huge market," the story quotes Ishimori. "Fixed-rate data plans, faster Internet access and sophisticated handsets are contributing to that growth."
And the story quotes Tim Smith,CEO of 3G service company Sairis Group KK, as saying the largest Japanese pornography sites sign up as many as a thousand new customers a day.
The mobile porn market is "still relatively untouched," according to the head of Hokuto's online outlet.
UK telecom analyst firm Juniper Research has predicted that global revenue from mobile porn will more than double by 2013.
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