Whether a child is at school, a park or a friend’s house, parents are comforted to know where their kids are throughout the day. Alltel Wireless announced the launch of Axcess Family Finder, a service that enables parents to determine the location of their child's Axcess Family Finder-capable phone from the Web or their mobile phone.

Axcess Family Finder features easy-to-use interactive maps to monitor or guide family members to specific locations. The service also allows parents to identify specific areas that their children frequent, including movie theaters and parks, by using the Axcess Family Finder Web site, www.alltel.com/familyfinder.

The Axcess Family Finder Web site also supports added security measures with Scheduled Checks which allows parents to register specific locations to be tracked during certain times. GPS technology is used to locate the child’s phone, and the parents’ phones can receive a text message automatically notifying them of the child’s location.

Axcess Family Finder requires a "child" phone, which must be Axcess Family Finder-capable; these include the LG AX8600, Samsung U520, and the Samsung R510 "Wafer". Parents can view a child’s location from the Web on a personal computer or from a mobile phone with Web capabilities.

The service, developed for Alltel by WaveMarket is available for $9.99 a month per child application.

Similar services were reported as early in 2005

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