Can mobile devices be used for parental control?

Rather than yell at their children for using too many wireless minutes, and threaten to shut off the phones, parents may soon be able to go online and control not only how much the kids use the phones -- but when and even whom they can call.

Boston Communications Group Inc., a company that provides back-office order-processing systems for prepaid wireless plans to big US wireless carriers, rolled out a new software package this month called "Mobile Guardian." The program would give parents or corporate finance managers a package of tools to regulate phone use. By going to a website, people using the system could register multiple phone numbers and put weekly or monthly limits on the minutes each one can be used. When a subscriber got within 10 or 20 minutes of using up the allotment, he or she could be alerted with an e-mail message, a short advisory to the phone, a voice mail alert, or all three.

Source: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/03/28/another_wrinkle_permitted_numbers/

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