At Christmas, many child has a cell phone on the wishlist. This brings many parents in a quandary: while they want on the one hand, that her child can be reached and can call in case of emergency.
What rates are recommended for children? Above all the opportunity to closely control costs is important. Here above all prepaid cards are: the credit is used up, can no longer make calls the child, is still accessible. Emergency calls are still possible. Partly monthly limits can be defined for mobile phone contracts. Since children often many SMS send a flat rate on the basis of prepaid can be agreed. The automatic charging should be switched off. Children and parents call each other often, community fares offered.
What good are special prices for children? Special prices for children are sometimes quite expensive. Also they are often bound to a minimum and only to have, if the parents already have a contract with the mobile provider. The advantage of tariffs are mostly simple control of costs and cheaper or free phone calls to the parents.
How can I avoid expensive ringtone subscriptions and other traps? Ringtone subscriptions and expensive special numbers are locked in the most children. Some ringtone providers, the mobile number can be blocked for their offers. Prepaid offers, the risk is rather small, as the balances on prepaid cards is limited, the industry service emphasizes teltarif.de.
Can access to the Internet be blocked from? Yes. Just for younger children, the mobile Internet should be disabled. Also a phone without Internet access is sufficient for you. For young people who surf regularly with her cell phone in the network, a data flat rate is recommended.
Which mobile phone models are suitable for children? There are special children cell phones that are particularly easy to use and can call partly only certain programmable telephone numbers. Normal phones are often too complex for children. As a general rule: A cell phone for children should be especially cheap – then a loss hurts not so much.
Are cell phones for the health of a child dangerous? The electromagnetic radiation from cell phones is not dangerous according to the recent findings of the Federal Office for radiation protection. Other studies have shown the opposite. Parents should pay most definitely on the radiation value of mobile phones to the so-called SAR value: the legal limit on mobile phones is 2 Watts per kilogram, experts recommend a SAR value by up to 0.6 watts per kilogram.
Can I place my child with the phone? Special prices for children partly contain a location service. Accordingly, parents can query, where their children just keep on. Other companies offer location services for all mobile phone operators in the Internet. Parents should keep in mind however, that they monitor their child with such services. Service providers require usually therefore an approval SMS tracking requests on a mobile phone. Teens can also reject a monitoring.
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