Phone firms wrestle with porn dilemma

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Lifer
Jan 7, 2002
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Pornography and other adult services are creating big problems for many mobile phone firms.
Operators are struggling to find ways to stop children and others accidentally stumbling across adult content but they also want to make it easy for those that want to pay for porn to get at it.

This week phone firms, industry analysts and mobile content creators are meeting at a conference in London to debate the ways in which operators can strike this balance.

Networks fear that if they do not quickly find a workable way to handle adult content the Government will impose its own regulations.

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