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T-Mobile Adds Parental Controls to Family Plans

Jul 31, 2008, 7:37 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Jul 31, 2008, 8:05 AM

Today T-Mobile announced that it will be adding more advanced parental controls to its family plans. The new feature, called Family Allowance, will give parents control over what services can be used on their children's phones and to what extent. They can set limits to the number of text messages that can be sent, set limits on downloads, such as ringtones or games, and set limits on the number of minutes used in any given month for phone calls. Once a monthly limit for one of the services is reached, that service is shut off and no longer available to that line. The tool is controlled via the T-Mobile web site, and parents will receive notifications when limits are reached. Family Allowance will be available beginning in August and will cost $2 per month.

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source: T-Mobile

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NapalmBBQ

Aug 1, 2008, 12:24 PM

Papa Telecom

For $2 a month we'll parent your children. 🙄

Some one has to I guess. Come into my store and I'll spank them for free.

sunshinegirl

You made me laugh. Thank you, I really needed that today. 😉 🤣 😉

eric_cartman

Jul 31, 2008, 12:34 PM

Good thing or a bad thing?

How's this supposed to help?

stephen5688

Well one of my friends, who has three kids, the two oldest girls age 11 and 13 where added to his family plan with AT&T with 200 text and since at the time he had noway of controlling what they did on the phones his first bill was over $800 and he was...
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GRitzma

well as employee's it helps us because we don't have people in here bitching about how there kid ran up there bill, or my favorite, my kid dosen't even use the phone, or he/she was in school when these calls were made, no kidding lady, no kid has ever...
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lime679

How about they concentrate on getting BETTER phones??

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Slammer

Jul 31, 2008, 5:07 PM

This is so not right.....

👿 Now how am I gonna get my Porn? 😈

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