14 DAY TRIAL // All across this world there are only two types of people: the ones who admit they have downloaded porn and those that do it on a daily basis. If you don't find yourself in one of these two categories, you are probably an extinct species of some sort.
The sources where you can get porn these days are growing in number each day and this fact has made some mobile phone carriers think about capitalizing the need for porn and one of the pioneers that took this road is Telus Corp. from Canada.
I can only imagine the grins on the Telus' customers' faces and the porn downloading mania started as soon as Telus introduced its pay-per-download porn distributing service on January 8th. This service allows the customers to download pornographic content and videos and is charging them between 3 to 4 $ per downloaded item.
Telus' decision has come at the right time because the mobile phone users already had access to adult content through their Internet browser enabled handsets and, as Jim Johansson a Telus spokesman has said, they introduced their service "in a very responsible way - adult content that's in behind proper age verification and that's compliant with provincial standards and regulation".
Of course, this is another way of saying "we know you can download porn and you have to pay only the data transfer fees to do that but why not download them through the service we launched and pay us a 10 time bigger fee?". I can't condemn them though because if the customers decide to go and use their service, that is their own choice.
At the moment, Bell Canada, another important mobile carrier in Canada is probably going to take a slice of this new type of mobile service. Paolo Pasquini, Bell's spokesman, has declared "obviously, we continually review a range of potential services. You can rest assured that we'll always remain competitive in our markets".
In common language, that translates into something like this :) : "If they have something like this working and their clients put down the money, going all berserk about the possibility of downloading porn on their mobile porns through a specially designed service, we are not going to be left out of the deal because we also want a piece of the pie".
In conclusion, according to a Reuters study, more than 400 million US$ were spent on adult content during 2005. Also, taking into consideration the increasing amount of money people seem to spend each year on porn (whatever type of porn you may think of), the Telus investment seems to be a very good opportunity to increase the company's yearly income and, from the looks of it, that augmentation in profits will be due to one of the nicest things mobile phone carriers can do for their customers: providing them with the means of downloading unlimited quantities of porn!
If that is not what business is all about, then tell me what is!