Mobile phones for children: a boon or a peril? - Times Online

Nevertheless, the landmark point at which more than half of British children aged between 5 and 9 own mobiles has been passed, according to research by Josh Dhaliwal, the co-founder of MobileYouth, a specialist research consultancy that tracks young people’s technology use. “Lots of children’s phones tend to be hand-me-downs from adults,” he says. “My sister gave her seven-year-old daughter a mobile for her birthday and that’s about the norm now.”
via women.timesonline.co.uk