AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon provides parental control (USA)To keep a check on kids mobile phone usage, Cellular Companies are striving hard to help parents in doing so. Teenagers at some point of time atonishes their parents with cell phone mobile bills 3,000 peak minutes, 5,000 text messages and new ring tones to fill the overnight slot on a college radio station. Finally, Cellular companies realises the pain that parents are undergoing as Cellular networks has begin offering various new services:
- T-Mobile offers service that will give parents a way to control almost every aspect of their children’s cell phone use, except what they say or write in a text message.
- Verizon would soon offer similar services.
- AT&T Wireless was the first out of the four major networks to introduce parental controls when it introduced the “Smart Limits” service last September. For $5 a month, parents can go online to set allowances for text messages, peak calling minutes and money spent on downloadable content. With this plan, parents can restrict which cell phone numbers can be called and limit the times of day the phone can be used for texting, calling or Web surfing. Smart Limits also let parents block Web content which is not appropriate for children.
