Canadian telecommunications company Telus has received approximately 135 complaints out of 5,000,000 customers regarding the choice to sell pornographic photos and videos over via cell phones. The number actually is much less than what the company expected when it began distributing adult content.
Comprising only about .0003 percent of Telus customers, the incredibly small number of complaints indicates that Canadians have accepted pornographic material sold to adults via mobile telecommunication devices.
Beginning in January, the second-biggest Canadian telephone company was the one of the first North American companies to sell pornography via its mobile cell phone systems. Currently, Telus charges $3-$4 per photo or pornographic video download to mobile phones.
Director of Media Relations Jim Johannsson noted that Europe and Asia have been selling telecom pornography for awhile. He also indicated that, previously, "people downloaded pornography to their phones from internet sources."
Johannsson noted that the company was "working in a responsible way to release" adult content for mobile phones. The company "is using a third party for age verification," which "syncs up credit card and age" to determine the "user’s date of birth."
