Japan’s much vaunted mobile phone networks are groaning at the seams thanks to the rapid growth of the market for mobile pornography, which now increasingly takes the form of video.
According to mobile phone network operators DoCoMo and KDDI, adoption of “unlimited” internet access plans on their mobile phones (traditionally charged by the packet) has prompted people to download porn whenever they are away from a computer.
“A mobile is far handier than a computer for Internet access – I seldom use a PC outside the office,” confesses one mobile onanist.
Several of Japan’s top phone companies say they are considering or have limited the access of thousands of heavy users of accounts with unmetered data transfer plans.
Although Japanese privacy law prohibits phone companies from logging and looking at the downloads their customers make, they speculate adult videos in particular are causing the bandwidth slowdown.
“We can’t see customers’ data but can surmise the biggest portion of it is probably movies,” said a rather circumspect spokesperson with KDDI, “We can’t deny the possibility those movies include adult content.”
3G Internet speeds apparently slow down the greatest after midnight when the heaviest mobile internet users access online content.
Some data analysts believe porn sales are currently beating the second largest mobile download industry, that of music sales. They project the mobile pornography industry to double by 2013, whereas music sales are projected to grow only by a third by 2013.
Executives of the unfortunately named Soft on Demand, one of Japan’s major porn DVD and online video distribution services, have already noticed the trend in adult movies purchased by mobile users and anticipate a profitable market.
“We see the mobile phone as potentially a huge market,” said the head of Soft on Demand’s online sales, whose mobile porn sales surged 40% over the past year, already having reached several million dollars in revenue, though this is a small fraction of Japan’s billion dollar porn market, of which Soft on Demand commands almost 15%.
As the desire for data access grows, phone companies will have to decide how to structure their new unlimited Internet access plans to accommodate users in a strangled 3G wireless network.
A telecommunications analyst from Tokai Tokyo Securities Co. said pornography will likely be the cause of this change and “may prompt even tighter access restrictions.”
Several data-tracking companies saw this issue coming with the advent of Third-Generation internet services in Japan in 2001 and the trend of mobile phones to glorified miniature computers.
“When you have unlimited data, you’re going to have an issue with capacity – it’s an issue that’s been waiting to happen,” said one analyst, “It wouldn’t surprise me that it happens in Japan first because they’ve had 3G for so much longer.”
Via Bloomberg.
The less than truthful way “unlimited” data plans are marketed for mobile devices or ISPs will doubtless need some adjustments, but with inexpensive metropolitan wifi networks increasingly available in Japan and elsewhere, mobile onanists may have a convincing alternative…
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I guess I need to get a Blackberry for my porn now.
hmm
so people dont even wait to get home to rub one out
they just go to the bathroom
and get them some mobile porn
hmm
it makes lots of sense except that well they are doing it a public restroom
also how hard are you that you cant chill and wait to get home
Pornography has pushed cutting edge technology, at least since the first photographer made a Daguerreotype of his nude mistress, back in the early 1840s.
and haruhi is looking at hentai so not cool!
denial
Heh...Sex sells...Now and forever...
Porn! Its on the go now :3
japanese porn sucks
agreed, japanese woman are mostly butt ugly too
the ones that aren't are censored
I'm quite amused by this indeed. I suppose it's going to be the reason cell networks put up content filters, then.
Rule #34
'nuff said
"mobile onanist"
I don't think you need to look any further...
I love this pic.
"Japanese privacy law prohibits phone companies from logging and looking at the downloads their customers make"
Maybe this law explains some of the heavy use of phones for downloads.
But obviously the phone companies do not obey the law because how would they know what people download. And please don't give me that "we assume" shit. Someone should drive there ass in court so they can learn not fuck with privacy laws.
Did you read any more then the first sentence?
Hahaha now will start mobile faping 'everywhere' XD
thats what you get when you have flatrate internet :p
is it mobile phone optimized like no far shots or you can control where you want to look?
most porn sites now offer video optimized for ipods/iphone.
i dont know how you can watch it so small.
its culture man, culture pornphone
time to roll out the 4g networks
Mobile providers must evolve the way Internet providers have as porn is here to stay on the mobile device.
~Cherie
So internet is for porn afterall!
Its always been like that since ARPANET.
This statement is correct.
How do you FIND these pictures to go along with your post? o_O
How *don't* you find pictures?
OLD NEWS
DON'T LIKE IT!
MOAR MICHAEL JACKSON!
Search for some porn then grab your crotch and just Beat It.
This is the effect of Agnes Chan's proposal. She's a genius who will be forever remembered in history as a faggot
A cell phone can double as a vibrator..
And...
SPARTA!!
Something I'd expect to hear from japan...
mobile porn...sex with girls is now doomed.
I don't think people desperate enough to download porn on their phones have much of a chance with girls in the first place...
A lot of the married men I know in America do this. I expect the same is true for the Japanese. It's easy to take anywhere you can get privacy--- and its not going to make fun of you for wanting something a little different.
You have just reminded the majority of otaku with what they already know.
the porn it spreads more! its good.. very good, mwahahaha
indeed
Did somebody say Net Neutrality?
I wish i'm in Japan right now :3
Still pictures I can understand, but porn on that tiny mobile screen...
you do understand that a 6 inch screen from 1ft away is the same a 60inch screen from 10ft away?
True, only if one ignores cost.
But why would anyone be 10 ft away from a 60 inch screen with porn on.
The more pixels the better.
to keep the screen clean and not skeet all over it?
Just can't resist the pixels can you.
Exactly. I'd be like 2 feet way so I could see every bit of it up close.
Not only is your statement incorrect but who the fuck has a cellphone with a 6 inch screen? That can't be convenient.
I remember a mobile which could be opened to reveal a huge folded oled display showcased a while ago. Maybe that thing can be bought now...
Got any links to these "six-inch (screen) devices"?
As ../Anonymous wrote, I don't think these could be "convenient".
Whatever these things are, area-wise, they'd be bigger than a Nintendo DS, and smaller than a netbook.
You have not been to Japan, have you.. Lot's of people have them there.. and they also have a lot of other gimmicks the western hemisphere can only dream of.
They also have one of the best Internet backbones in the world, so I figure we are talking about a LOT of porn here. o.O (Though the problem probably lies with cell network transfer capacity on the last mile).