New Christian Wireless Service Blocks LGBT and Adult Content

When Orlando pastor Chris Klimis saw a survey showing two-thirds of pastors have a “personal history” with pornography, he didn’t just preach about it, he decided to build something.

As chief operating officer of Radiant Mobile, a newly launched Christian wireless carrier, Klimis says the venture is his answer to what he calls a crisis hiding in plain sight inside the church. With six children of his own, he wants to close off the digital pipeline entirely.

“We’ve got to figure out some way to close the door to the digital space. That’s what we’re trying to do,” he said.

The company’s founder, Paul Fisher, a former modeling agent who once represented Naomi Campbell, is pitching Radiant Mobile as the first wireless service in the US to block pornography and LGBT content before it reaches a user’s device.

The network operates not through its own towers but by purchasing bandwidth from T-Mobile, much like President Trump’s “Trump Mobile” service with its filtering powered by Allot, an Israeli cybersecurity firm whose technology categorizes internet domains into more than 100 content types.

“We are going to create, and we think we have every right to do so, an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans,” Fisher said.

Pornography is blocked across the board and a second “sexuality” filter is enabled by default on every device and targets gender-related and LGBT material. The technology is precise enough to block specific subpages rather than entire websites.

Fisher pointed to Yale University as an illustration: the main yale.edu domain would load normally, but lgbtq.yale.edu would not. “They have a subsection of one of their websites that’s totally focused on, you know, trans equality,” he said, adding that sites with LGBT content prominently displayed on their homepages could face broader blocks as well. “If we see [LGBT content] on the front pages consistently of Yale University, we’ll block them, too.”

T-Mobile hasn’t said whether the filtering arrangement conflicts with its policies, noting only that it has no direct relationship with Radiant Mobile and that the carrier operates through intermediary CompaxDigital.

The plan runs $29.99 per month, with Fisher saying he intends to eventually direct a portion of revenues back to partner churches. He has also recruited Christian influencers to market the service and is eyeing expansion into countries abroad including Mexico and South Korea.

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