The continent is another country and they do things differently there: the chief executive of Belgian telephone company Belgacom NV has been charged with inciting debauchery and prostitution by leasing sex phone lines, the public prosecutor’s office; the so-called Pink Telephones generated a $40.7m profit for Belgacom last year, and we bet that British Telecommunications Plc chairman Sir Iain Vallence takes a very dim view of further Euro-harmonisation after that one.