EE introduces 'Safer SIMs' for children and teens

I'm pleased to see this move by EE to help toward keeping children and teenagers safer online. They launched a new category of price plan: Safer SIMs .

Here is the brief overview:

All our Safer SIM plans come with pre-set parental control options, so you can rest assured your child is better protected against viewing inappropriate material.

Parental controls can't be switched off, so whenever they’re connected to the EE Mobile network they’ll be safer online. Parental controls block access to websites based on content categories but can’t block all content in apps.

If you’ve got EE Broadband, you can set more parental controls so that devices connected to your Smart Hub router will have content filtered too.

So far, so good (of course, note the key point here – the moment the phone roams on to WiFi, these limitations no longer apply).

There's more, though. All plans won't run out of data. This is an important consideration for parents worried about being able to contact their children, or concerned to ensure that when their child needs access, they'll be able to get it.

Here's the price plan choice:

The unlimited data approach is managed by ensuring that the Safer SIM always has 0.5Mbps of data service, rather than bursting up to limits that normal SIMs will ordinarily get.

So at £7, expect the data to just work. If you opt for £10, then you'll get 3GB of data per month that runs at 10Mbps and the £15/month option gives 10GB of data usage at 100MBps speeds.

All in all, I reckon this is really good.

I'm already paying a tenner a month per son (they're using O2) and I'm giving serious consideration to swapping them to the £10 EE Safer SIMs. I think if I could just press a button, I'd have done it already. What's preventing me is just the time to sit down and figure out the migration process.

If I was shopping around for a mobile price plan for my child/teenager, I wouldn't be hesitating to opt for EE.

Nice work, team EE.

Find out more here: https://ee.co.uk/mobile/safer-sims

And here is the Safer SIMs explainer by Sammy, age 13: