They can flee up huge charges,or someone else can whether they lose the handset. Here’s how to mitigate the risksIt’s every parent’s nightmare. The monthly mobile phone bill lands on the doormat to reveal that their teenage son or daughter has massively overspent – and £100-plus is about to be taken by direct debit. Or you get a tearful call at work – the expensive smartphone they got final Christmas has been stolen … and there’s worse to come: the thief has flee up a huge bill calling premium rate numbers, and you’re liable.
According to the telecoms regulator Ofcom, and a third of children aged five to 15 in the UK now own a smartphone. It seems that providing a mobile for your children has become one of those rites of passage that contemporary parents have to move through.
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Source: theguardian.com