With both T-Mobile and AT&T, subscribers' children receive warning messages when they near the end of their calling, texting and spending limits.
Take children's programmes, one of Viacom's specialities: Netflix, an online-video service, now offers subscribers 75 children's series.Part of the ratings fall is explained by inadequate measurement tools, complains Philippe Dauman, the chief executive of Viacom.
The Times will introduce e-mail discounts for restaurants, events and travel from advertisers, and Meredith will sell deals to subscribers, like children's products to readers of Parents magazine.
(Notably, many of Paul's subscribers are children aged under 18).
For $5 more, subscribers with children can sign up for the Kids Extra pack, which includes networks like Disney Junior and Boomerang.
Peter Csathy, chairman of the tech advisory firm Creatv Media, said 50% of the company's subscribers watch children's programming on a regular basis.
In 1946, the year Benjamin Spock published "Baby and Child Care," Parents' reached four hundred thousand subscribers; it came to be known as the Family Bible.
Today brings a development from the UK, where a judge has determined that BT must use its Cleanfeed censorship technology, intended for blocking child pornography, to prevent its subscribers from accessing the file sharing website Newzbin2.
