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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

Trackback — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:49:39 EDT

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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

IvyIsis — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:51:06 EDT

If you know teenagers, $60 per year is DEAL compared to the insanity that could be printed as the cost on your bill after they've gone over the minute limit AND the text messaging limit. Kids text message all day, every day. In class, while driving (scary!), wherever...

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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

Bauhaus — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:16:10 EDT

My favorite thing is this: you have to pay an extra $60 per year to let them cripple the phone for you.

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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

axiomatic — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:12:55 EDT

I gave my 14 year old daughter an iPhone. Her ipod died recently and we were going to get her a cellphone for her freshman year in high school so in truth we only spent an extra $100 to put the two devices together in to a 4gb iPhone.

It's excessive yes, but she is showing excellent responsibility with the device and has gained some "street geek cred" with her friends. ;-)

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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

BigDanInTX — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:08:47 EDT

Just get them a Firefly and you won't have to worry about ANY of that! lmao

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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

blork — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:58:56 EDT

This isn't new; there's a product called Parent Patrol that does the same thing (www.parent-patrol.com). The difference is that Parent Patrol hasn't been picked up by many carriers yet, although a three or four are launching it in the next few months.

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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

Vjeszczi — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:58:23 EDT

Who in their right mind would give their child an iPhone to begin with?

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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

Wilson Rothman — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:57:13 EDT

@xenobread: Yep, AT&T charges $4.99 per phone, and I'm assuming each kid had a phone. Surely any self-respecting kid over the age of 13 would.

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AT&T Introduces Pay-For-Play Parental Controls for Cell Phones

xenobread — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:41:47 EDT

So how does the technology works to charge them per kid? Oh, or you mean per phone? Damn kids with their cell phones these days...I would just give them pagers.

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