The figures for 2002, when they come out, are expected to be much higher even than 2001, because of the impact of Operation Ore, an investigation into 6,500 Britons accused of accessing one US-based child porn site using credit cards.
Dr Rachel O'Connell, director of the Cyberspace Research Centre at the University of Central Lancashire, said that operation had in some ways made the situation worse by taking up so much of police's computer crime units time.
"Most of their resources, if not all, are taken up investigating the cases that were identified in Operation Ore," she told BBC Breakfast.
"It's technically possible [to track paedophile activities on the net], the only thing there's a shortage of is the actual resources being made available to the police."
Hutchison 3G is the only company to have launched the new video phones so far.
It and the other big five mobile phone firms - Vodafone, Virgin, T Mobile, Orange and O2 - are publishing their own code of practice later this month on tackling potential problems.
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