Without 3G mobile phones, how the prospect of having 3G Services in Cambodia will be?
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday banned video-capable mobile phones in Cambodia to curb the dissemination of pornography, because they can be used to spread obscene images.
"Maybe we can wait for another 10 years or so until we have done enough to strengthen the morality of our society,'' he said. Alcatel, a French telecommunications firm, announced in February that it would provide 3G mobile services to CamGSM, a Cambodian mobile phone network.
Alcatel officials in France were not immediately available for comment Friday. Hun Sen said Cambodia is facing a severe decline in social morality and that curbing pornography is one way to help rescue the country.
The third-generation mobile phone "is way too advanced for us. Hearing each other's voices and exchanging text messages should be enough. If we go further than this, it could be more difficult for us to control'' pornography, he added.
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I think the banning of 3G mobile phones in Cambodia is totally absurd. The introduction of 3G mobile phones and service brings benefits to many. For example, it enable users to make video calls, provide updates on news, traffic and others, the remote surveillance service and many more. Banning the 3G mobile phones just to curb pornography and to rescue the country so to increase their social morality is just not an acceptable reason. Pornography still can be leaked into the country in many ways for example the selling of pornography VCDs/DVDs and so on. I think the best way is through education and awareness campaign not the banning of mobile phones unnecessarily.
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