Communications giant AT&T is offering a new service that will allow parents to restrict their children's cell phone usage.
Dubbed Smart Limits, the service lets parents set restrictions on when children are able to use the phone and who they are able to receive text messages and phone calls from. It also lets them incoming calls and block calls from unknown numbers. Parents will also be able to block children from accessing certain websites using their phone's wireless technology. However, this function would not work on phones like the Apple iPhone, which uses Wi-Fi to access the web.
AT&T's chief marketing officer for wireless, David Christopher, was quoted by the Wall St Journal as saying: "We're letting parents feel good about giving kids cell phones without the unintended consequence of a surprise bill or behavior that they don't know about." Smart Limits is to cost an extra $4.99 per month per line, AT&T has said.
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