One of the most requested features for the ParentShield Portal has been a way to associate names with the displayed numbers. The difficulty involved with this is not so much technical — it requires just a few more routine lookups in a database — but… Read More »Who is my child speaking to?
ParentShield, the UK’s Child-Only mobile phone network provides powerful safeguarding and control features for parents wanting to safely provide a first mobile phone to younger children. To address the needs of corporate parents and allow them to respect the rights of children in care, ParentShield… Read More »Parentshield Adds Children In Care Modes
Occasionally we get a question about data time controls. It’s sometimes asked if we can customise SchoolBlock times from 3pm to 3:10 which is an individual school finishing time. Or start the blocking at 8:50 rather than 9am. It’s something we’ve experimented with a little… Read More »Time Controls on ParentShield – things you might need to know
If you are calling a child’s phone and you hear a “The owner of this mobile phone does not permit calls from withheld numbers; please enable caller-ID and try again” message then it’s fairly certain that the number, and caller, you are calling is protected… Read More »No Anonymous Calls – Ever
In its latest updates WhatsApp – the popular Facebook-owned chat application has stopped asking for any age verification for new users – meaning any child in charge of a smartphone can easily use the application to share photographs and videos without their parents’ ( or… Read More »Important WhatsApp information for parents and teachers
Customers can now request eSIM for a Child as an alternative to the traditional “physical SIM” card to use if their child’s device supports it. eSIM can be despatched via email and be active immediately – removing the worry and delay associated with the postal system and… Read More »ParentShield Launches eSIM
Virgin mobile was actually the first MVNO in the world. Impressive. It launched in 1999 and currently runs on the Vodafone network, despite Virgin Media’s recent merger with O2 to create ‘Virgin Media O2’; so one can only presume that this will change in the… Read More »Virgin Mobile Child SIM Card
A SIM card from Tesco will be an O2 SIM card. Tesco is an MVNO of O2’s and allows them to re-sell O2’s facilities. As you would expect, it’s a cheaper option that going to O2 direct and, as a while Tesco’s service and Feedback… Read More »Tesco Child SIM Card
giffgaff is a large MVNO with revenues in the hundreds of millions per year. It is a subsidiary of O2 UK – legally incorporated as Telefónica UK Limited. What network does giffgaff use? giffgaff runs on its parent company, O2’s network. It is a lower… Read More »giffgaff Child SIM
A SIM card from Asda Mobile will be a Vodafone SIM card. Asda Mobile is an MVNO of Vodafone’s and re-sells Vodafones services, and so Asda Mobile uses the Vodafone network. Asda is now a Vodafone piggyback SIM Asda Mobile SIM cards used to be… Read More »Asda Child SIM Card
