Secure to Insecure in about 6 or so years !!
Problem is, you buy the phone .. ( and I agree absolute, base models only, they must fund a more hi-tech money drain for themselves ) with security (
) in mind ... The reality is very soon they don't care too much about security, being fresh and uninhibited by our fears.. communication with friends is their priority.
Then they learn ... run out of credit before that gig night you have been dreading !! What do you do ? Thoughts of them in a problem situation being unable to ring you for help because YOU did not credit their phone.
So my idea (too late for us ... they credit their own now
I guess with some of our dosh
) is to have the phones in your name Pay as you go ... set up the facility to credit the phone by text or call ... then you have that back-up ... The 'gig' has finished, they are lost, credit almost gone ... Do you have them walking the streets for a working public phone. .for which they'll probably have no change ? Or credit their phone and have them name the road within which they stand ?
Mobiles are wonderful things ... but can entice youngsters into a habit financially as bad as smoking ... another rip off perpetrated on children.
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