News from Japan

Bloomberg reports:

Porn Downloads Strain Japan Phone Network, Prompt DoCoMo Curbs

Here’s a snippet:

Global revenue from pornography on mobile devices will more than double to $4.9 billion in the five years to 2013, while music sales will grow by about a third, said Juniper, which provides global research on the telecommunication industry and includes Finland’s Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, Apple and Microsoft Corp. among its clients.
“We can’t see customers’ data but can surmise the biggest portion of it is probably movies,” said KDDI spokesman Keiichi Sakurai. “We can’t deny the possibility those movies include adult content.”
Customers have complained about stoppages or slow Web access, mainly around midnight when traffic from “heavy users” spikes, Sakurai said. Japanese carriers spent $74 billion building their networks since 2000, based on data provided by Wireless Intelligence, a London-based researcher.
Japan has more than 1,000 companies producing adult-content movies, generating about 17,000 titles last year, said Tim Smith, who’s worked in Japan’s telecommunications industry since 1999 and is chief executive officer of 3G service company Sairis Group KK.

Posted by on July 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pm


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