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Unless it's under the parent's name, kids cannot have their own plan under contract. Most likely the percentage that is left out are using Pre-paid mobile phones. They require no contract, but the parent can easily control it by restricting how many minute cards they buy the child.

I see no problem with this and the Firefly phones that can only call a small amount of phone numbers the parents program into the phone. Kids that young should only need the phone for emergencies anyway.]]>Sep 16th 2008 9:49AM