Parents can Prevent Children from becoming Addicted to Mobile Phones
The major mobile phone networks in the US have started to provide phone plans that will allow parents to monitor their teenage children use of mobile phones. For $5 or less a month, parents could set limits on a host of things from text messages to Web-surfing time.
It is hard to tell if the telephone companies are responding to a call for a solution to prevent phone addiction among juveniles. After all, in the US mobile phone market, the age-groups with the greatest potential for growth are the very young and the very old. Parental controls, therefore, could be one way through which mobile phone networks hope to win over children – via their parents.