Mobile 'erotic entertainment' companies are thick on the ground at
3GSM this year, although the
hall in which they are gathered is keeping a low profile.
While many companies are making money from producing porn for handheld
devices, very few are prepared to talk about it.
A row erupted over such content during the show after Canadian Archbishop
Raymond
Roussin of Vancouver called for a boycott of Canada's second largest mobile
operator after it started selling pornographic material.
"Given the increasing awareness of addiction to pornography through internet
access, and the abuse that this perpetuates of vulnerable persons, the decision
by Telus is
disappointing and disturbing," he told the
British
Columbia Catholic newspaper.
Nevertheless there is a lot of business being done on the stands and some
companies are making more of a fuss than others.
Brickhouse
Mobile held an event on its stand in which
Aria
Giovanni, a performer in many Brickhouse offerings, launched her handheld
website to an excited crowd.
The bread-and-butter of the mobile porn industry is still SMS. Uses subscribe
to one-on-one chat with a model (usually working in a call centre), but these
are increasingly being sold a branded services with celebrity porn actresses.
"SMS pays the bills, but other formats are becoming more popular," said the
representative of a mobile erotica company who wished to remain nameless.
"Wallpaper is getting bigger, but movie loops are the future. Very few people
are going to sit and watch a whole film on a handheld, but they will pay for a
clip."
The representative added that the increasing integration of camera technology
in phones is already making porn a Web 2.0 player.
Websites like
PornoTube,
a similar site to
YouTube
but with adult content, are growing in popularity, and already accept
phone-recorded content provided that the quality is good enough.
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