{"id":10290,"date":"2016-04-09T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-to-do-if-your-childs-mobile-phone-bill-starts-to-ring-alarm-bells\/"},"modified":"2016-04-09T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T06:41:00","slug":"what-to-do-if-your-childs-mobile-phone-bill-starts-to-ring-alarm-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-to-do-if-your-childs-mobile-phone-bill-starts-to-ring-alarm-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do if your child\u2019s mobile phone bill starts to ring alarm bells"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThey can run up huge charges, or someone else can if they lose the handset. Here\u2019s how to mitigate the risksIt\u2019s every parent\u2019s nightmare. The monthly mobile phone bill lands on the doormat to reveal that their teenage son or daughter has massively overspent \u2013 and \u00a3100-plus is about to be taken by direct debit. Or you get a tearful call at work \u2013 the expensive smartphone they got last Christmas has been stolen \u2026 and there\u2019s worse to come: the thief has run up a huge bill calling premium rate numbers, and you\u2019re liable.According to the telecoms regulator Ofcom, a third of children aged five to 15 in the UK now own a smartphone. It seems that providing a mobile for your children has become one of those rites of passage that modern parents have to go through. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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