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Will Mobile Porn Pay Off? This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Saturday, December 5, 2009

There's clear demand for mobile porn. The challenge is finding a way to make users pay for it.

After years of being stifled by carriers, purveyors of adult content are ramping up to bring their stuff to U.S. mobile users. Whether there’s much money in wireless porn, though, is still unclear. While hard figures are extremely difficult to pin down, there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that a substantial appetite exists for the steamy stuff on mobile phones. KDDI and NTT DoCoMo earlier this year blamed porn downloads for straining their networks, forcing them to [...]

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