Give that toddler a cellphone - don't small kids need one?

Well, that title is a little of a misgiving, but you get the idea. With Disney's recent MVNO move to offer phones to the teen and below-teen set, perhaps we'll see growth in the kid market for wireless soon. It's under-tapped and that makes carriers and possible MVNO partners - although Sprint is tapped out - another area for prime growth. No matter what you do, you gotta have growth (or your shareholders will eat you alive).

Disney's idea of a "control center" to monitor and control the activity on a child's Disney handset is a very good step in the right direction, and a required on for giving a handset to a child who may not understand the specifics of using one with all due diligence. I doubt we need anymore MVNOs, but Disney could have just started a niche trend in the wireless biz (with their brand power especially).

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