Wireless Porn

Looks like the telecom carriers in their search for new revenue sources are looking to jump on the porn bandwagon.  In a new report, the Yankee Group suggests that revenue from "adult content" will climb to US$90-million in the U.S. and US$1-billion globally by 2008.

In the U.S., the carriers will have to deal with child-protection legislation but they will likely get around the law by acting as a middleman rather than the content supplier. For those who has doubts about wireless porn, the Yankee Group says PhoneBox Entertainment gets more than 75 million hits a week.

The two things I have learned about the porn industry - from a business perspective, that is - is do not underestimate the industry's size, or its ability to use technology to deliver new prorducts and services. It was the porn industry, after all, that was among to capitalize on the VCR, e-commerce,  and DVDs. See today's National Post (A3) for more.