May 22, 2005
Cell phones gone wild
Obscene phone calls are about to take on a whole new meaning, reports The New York Daily News.
"As a new generation of mobile phones begins to offer video-on-demand service, analysts predict naughty movies will soon be a popular download.
The major carriers are hanging back, but others are jumping into what Yankee Group analyst Adam Zawel expects will be a $100 million industry in the United States by 2008.
[...] Some adult sites popping up that bypass the phone carriers altogether. Gramercy-based
Wicked Wireless plans to let customers swap sexy text messages with porn starlets.
"The idea is to make it peer to peer, rather than to the public," said Dennis Odamo, chief executive officer of the company. "The phone company doesn't care what you say to each other, but they do care what they say to an audience."
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