BANGALORE: Keshav Sadashiv (name changed) bought a smartphone with an internet connection six months ago and it's made him an addict of pornography. So addicted is he that he's unable to sleep without peering into at least a few porn video clips every night. Sadashiv's spouse is unaware of his porn escapades.
The very private nature of the mobile phone, combined now with good bandwidth, allows people like him to surf the smutty stuff far more than what PCs allowed, given that PCs tend to be family devices. No wonder then that, according to some estimates, the consumption of pornographic videos and adult content has gone up by 30% in the last one year.
Rohit Srivastwa, founder of clubhack, a hacker club, alleges that some telecom service providers in the country seem to be already selling pornography or encouraging customers to get hooked on to smut. "Almost 40% of the default websites currently available on cellphone browsers directly or indirectly take you to smutty spots.
Porn is going to be a killer application for 3G and service providers are currently in the process of cultivating an appetite for smut among its customers, so that they can go whole hog once the bandwidth is available," Srivastwa says. today.