Disney is rumored to be considering an MVNO in the UK because the company is headhunting executives there. “Disney would be risking controversy by entering the mobile market in Britain because its service could be seen as appealing to children; the UK mobile-phone industry has agreed not to market explicitly to children for fear they are more likely to suffer from prolonged exposure to radio waves.”
There are those people who don’t want mobile companies to market to children, and those people who want companies to offer child-safe services…and those people who don’t want children to use mobiles at all.
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