Phone sex bill drives teen to suicide

A teenage boy from China killed himself becuase of the phone bills which he recieved due to the phone sex services which are running all over the world and in China.

Li Hongbin, from a village in poor northwestern Gansu province, a dropout from school since last year began calling expensive hotlines in August. Those hotline numbers are of phone sex service providers who are charging three yuans per minute. Li Honghin bill costed 1800 Yuan which is USD 230. Li Honghin sucide himslef by drinking pesticides to end his life because a telephone company called his family for the payment.

The Longest phone call conversation which is recorded in Li Honghin Bill is of four hours. The average monthly cash income of Chinese farmers is just 300 yuan.

Phone sex services have been emerging as a new market in China after they embaraced the Open door policy where any nation can opena shop on any service. Phone sex service is very popular in Western countries particularly USA. The advertisements are found in local dailies and Telephone directories. Now Beijing is trying to crack down the pronography by campaigns which monitors phone sex lines also