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Call to block sex phone cards
MOBILE phone companies are being urged to help win the fight on sleaze by blocking numbers on sex calling cards in telephone boxes.
The deputy Mayor of London, Kit Malthouse, has invited Vodafone, Orange, O2, Virgin and T-Mobile to meet him and discuss ways of cutting off the numbers of the people behind the sex industry.
Mr Malthouse said: “If you are an American tourist and if you walk into a telephone box you would think it was a sex shop. We want a streamlined, agreed process for barring these numbers because they become very valuable for a number of reasons.
“Firstly they become a source of repeat business. Plus the numbers operate as a kind of switchboard, there will be several poor girls operating behind the number.
“Hopefully it will become dangerous to advertise your numbers in these boxes because you may lose your business. If you are a trafficker or a pimp all you are interested in is money, your are certainly not interested in the welfare of the women or young girls.”
Chief executives of all the major mobile phone companies have been invited to City Hall in October. Currently, the act of placing calling cards in phone boxes is an offence but those leaving the cards do it secretively, making a hard crime to detect.
Mr Malthouse has been a long time campaigner against sex service calling cards, beginning when he was a councillor in Westminster back in 2000.
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