Verizon Offers to Be Your Kids’ Chaperone

By Geoff Duncan June 12, 2006

Verizon Offers to Be Your Kids

First it was Disney offering special phones parents could use to keep tabs on their wayward progeny; now Verizon Wireless is getting in on the act, launching a new Chaperone service which leverages GPS technology build into LG Migo cellular phones to create two new service offerings for parents:

Chaperone Child Locator enables parents to locate their child’s phone from a PC via the Chaperone Web Site, or using their own mobile phone via a Chaperone mobile application available from Verizon’s Get It Now virtual store. Parents can issue one-time requests for a the location of a child’s phone and have it displayed on a map. Parents can aso program the Migo phone’s dedicated automatic calling buttons over the air using the Chaperone Web site, or customize other Chaperone settings.

Chaperone Child Zone enables parents to designate an area called a Child Zone around locations which are part of a child’s daily routine

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