Verizon Wireless Launches Mobile Chaperone Service
Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:41 am
Verizon Wireless today launched a wireless service that lets parents check their children's whereabouts. Based on Global Positioning System (GPS) data, the Chaperone service also lets parents set up geographic limits and receive text alerts if their children, who also carry phones, go too far from home.
The availability of Chaperone with Child Zone marks the first time a wireless service allows parents to establish predetermined areas for children to travel, automatically alerting the parent about the location of the device when it enters or leaves the defined area. Features of these services include:
Once the child is equipped with a new or updated Migo phone and the service is activated on the account, parents can locate their child's Migo phone from a PC via the Chaperone Web site (www.VerizonWireless.com/Chaperone). Optionally, parents can download the Chaperone application from the Get It Now virtual store, at no charge, to conduct single location requests for the Migo phone directly from the parent's Verizon Wireless phone.
Using this service, parents can:
- Perform single location requests of the Migo phone's whereabouts and display the location of the Migo phone on a map via the Chaperone Web site or the parent's Verizon Wireless phone
- Program the Migo phone's automatic calling buttons over the air from the Chaperone Web site
- Customize Chaperone settings, including 'English' or 'Spanish' language, creating a unique name for the child's Migo phone and enabling or disabling the emergency calling button
Using the Chaperone Web site, a parent can construct an area called a Child Zone around the vicinity of locations that their child frequents (such as school, playgrounds or daycare centers). Different locations can be "zoned" for one time, always on, or for up to 24 hours. When the child arrives or leaves the predetermined area with their Migo phone, the parent is alerted via TXT Message on their Verizon Wireless phone.
Additionally, the Migo phone allows a child to be in quick contact with their parents or other relatives by pressing one of four buttons to speed dial loved ones when the buttons are programmed by their parents, whether they are calling just to say "hello" or in the event a problem occurs. Designed for family communication, the Migo phone allows parents to program up to four important phone numbers, like their home, mobile or work numbers, emergency services, a babysitter or a grandparent, then children can speed dial these "helpers" with the simple touch of a button.
To purchase Chaperone, parents first need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Family Share Plan and must have a Migo phone on that account. Parents can add the basic Chaperone Child Locator for $9.99 monthly access per line or add Chaperone Child Locator and Chaperone with Child Zone for $19.99 monthly access per line.
Kids are not going to like this... but I guess it would work for elementary school kids.
2. Posted by alexofdodd
Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:54 pm
That is going to put Verizon on the leading edge for families, however it won't get the kids vote!
3. Posted by neek
Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:26 pm
Exactly what we need. A 10 dollar page to find that phone!
4. Posted by brianthebmf
Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:06 am
you know that husbands and wifes and gonna be putting these in each others car trunks.
5. Posted by Cadd
Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:07 am
Haha... it's too bad the Migo looks like a Martian, otherwise it wouldn't be such a bad tool for adults.
6. Posted by SatoriFound
Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:51 pm
You can get this with other phones. It doesn't have to be a Migo.
We are really thinking of getting this for a younger children. It would be great if they were snatched the kidnapper didn't notice the phone. Just an extra precaution. Like insurance. I would buy them one if it were disguised in jewelry or something....
7. Posted by pink69
Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:20 pm
Will this work on an LG "The V" 9800? If so can the app be locked so Ms. Teenager can't turn it off?
8. Posted by Miami786VZW
Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:07 pm
Based on the web site it will work on the v 9800 it may need to get new firmware for it to work.
9. Posted by stargrl357
Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:19 pm
I would think the locking thing would be included. or else it would defeat the purpose of tracking. Can anyone verify?
10. Posted by KingofSpadez06
Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:07 pm
This also works with the motorola V3m and the LG vx5200.
11. Posted by steve0092
Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:13 pm
the`worst phone i have ever seen
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