Randy Shore, CanWest News Service; Vancouver SunPublished: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Canada.com
VANCOUVER - Telus stopped providing adult content on cellular phones Tuesday, director of media relations Jim Johannsson said. The company had registered and age-verified several thousand customers since January for the service that allows adult cellphone customers to download nude photographic images to their phones for $3 each, or nude video files for $4 each. However, after receiving several hundred customer complaints -most of them from Western Canada - and a number of service cancellations, Telus decided to discontinue the service, Johannsson said.
"Some of our corporate customers, too, have called to try and understand the direction we were going," he said. Vancouver's Catholic archdiocese, calling the pictures pornography, on Friday told about 130 parishes and schools to cancel their contracts with Telus Mobility. The church ramped up its fight with a 12-page special section in this week's edition of The B.C. Catholic, a weekly newspaper published by the Vancouver archdiocese. The Feb. 19 edition includes a front-page story about the church's fight with Telus in an editorial that scolds the company for "hitching its financial future to the abuse-ridden and pain-filled pornography industry."
VANCOUVER - Telus stopped providing adult content on cellular phones Tuesday, director of media relations Jim Johannsson said. The company had registered and age-verified several thousand customers since January for the service that allows adult cellphone customers to download nude photographic images to their phones for $3 each, or nude video files for $4 each. However, after receiving several hundred customer complaints -most of them from Western Canada - and a number of service cancellations, Telus decided to discontinue the service, Johannsson said.
"Some of our corporate customers, too, have called to try and understand the direction we were going," he said. Vancouver's Catholic archdiocese, calling the pictures pornography, on Friday told about 130 parishes and schools to cancel their contracts with Telus Mobility. The church ramped up its fight with a 12-page special section in this week's edition of The B.C. Catholic, a weekly newspaper published by the Vancouver archdiocese. The Feb. 19 edition includes a front-page story about the church's fight with Telus in an editorial that scolds the company for "hitching its financial future to the abuse-ridden and pain-filled pornography industry."
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