More than 5.8m families shell out for their children’s mobile phone with little or no control of how much is spent each month, according to research from mobile operator T-Mobile.
I reckon if I had children, I’d probably put them on one of the Three UK monthly contracts — that or a £60 T-Mobile Flext deal.
However been a total mobile geek, I wonder if my children will completely rebel against that and adopt tin cans and bits of string to communicate with their friends, just to wind me up.
Have you got children? What mobile strategy did you adopt for them? Monthly contracts? Pay as you go?
Monthly contracts with T-Mob. Two of them are managing to stay within their limits. Just read the riot act to daughter 3 about the £55 bill. Would be happy to pay to receive a txt to tell me that they have reached their limit or wouldn’t it be a smart move by the operators to cap the bills?
Hell freezes over…….
Jim
I seem to remember the operators did used to do a bill capping thing, but it seemed to work in reverse to how you’d imagine. If you want it, they wouldn’t enable it for you, but if you were a high usage customer and burning airtime like it was going out of fashion and running up huge bills, they’d get tetchy and restrict your calling.
Used to happen to me when I was running up £500+ monthly bills on calls alone. Those were the days..
As you say, chances of the mobile operators doing something sensible like this is about the same chance as it snowing in hell. Surely it’d be a good idea as having a limit (or an indication of a bill going over a certain preset limit) would help rein in the costs and therefore reduce operator bad debt?