Mobile phones fanning porn, crime, says MP

PARLIAMENT yesterday heard of the risks that the competition in the communication industry was posing to PNG society.
Moresby North-east MP Andrew Mald, said with cheap accessible mobile communication, pornography, adultery and organised crime were on the rise.
He said looking at it, there was no way these activities could be effectively monitored.
Mr Mald said wives and husbands had multiple SIM cards, one to be used between themselves and another for “other purposes”.
He also said that adult men were also using their phones to text obscene messages and pornographic images to school girls and criminals were using their phones to monitor large transactions of money and the movement of police before planning their attacks.
“This cannot continue,” Mr Mald said.
“How will pornography, adultery and crime be controlled if there is no safety net in place to monitor the current misuse of phone services in the country,” he asked the Communications Minister Patrick Tammur.
“How do we know where a call is coming from and who is making the call when people currently have access to multiple SIM cards,” he asked.
Mr Tammur responded by stating that while there was nothing currently in place to effectively monitor this, the department had captured all these issues in the new Information Communication Technology bill that would soon go before the Parliament for deliberation.