What a Closed User Group is, and why you need one By ParentShield’s Telephony Experts A Closed User Group ( or CUG ) is a special type of mobile service that only works between a pre-selected group of subscribers. It means that mobile phones in… Read More »Closed User Group Mobile
Will my Child’s phone work without a SIM card? Published by ParentShield’s Phone Experts. One of our biggest questions is if a child can be given a phone without a SIM card. It’s a pretty common scenario. A child will often be ‘gifted’ that old… Read More »Do I need a SIM for my Child’s phone?
ParentShield is designed to cater for some of the modern parenting dilemmas involving CoParenting children with mobile phones. Unlike a ‘normal’ adult mobile phone service, ParentShield is designed to be flexible and provides the features that families and carers need to keep their children safe… Read More »Co-parenting and mobile phones
One of the most common questions we get at ParentShield is “How can I locate my Child’s phone?” It’s one of the most useful features of a modern mobile phone, and something that we’ve got used to being there, but does it always work? and… Read More »Geolocation: Finding a Child’s Phone
ParentShield has experienced exponential growth in subscriber numbers, and with it an inevitable ( and welcome ! ) increase in support and sales calls to the company’s Derby Offices. As a result, ParentShield has chosen Dorset Based Message Direct to provide overflow call answering support Determined… Read More »Overflow call answering at ParentShield
Most people don’t think much about how they communicate, and even less so about how they learned to communicate. It’s only when you are in the situation many of us who are providing a mobile phone for a child with autism, ADHD, or some other… Read More »Mobile Phones for Children with Autism
What is a ParentShield Home Number? A ParentShield Home Number is a special phone number that is treated differently to other numbers that a ParentShield user communicates with. Because ParentShield includes many optional and powerful blocking mechanisms for Child Protection it’s important that Parents set… Read More »ParentShield Home Numbers
Mobile Phone Services are targeted by hackers and stalkers because they have traditionally presented an easy target. Although mobile networks have improved their processes considerably, very few phone accounts are protected by the necessary security controls to keep their users safe from hacking or identity… Read More »Higher Security Mobile
EE is massive in the UK, with 26 million subscribers. It’s huge, and has grown to its current size by swallowing up the old Orange, BT Mobile and T-Mobile networks in the UK and rolling them all into a single brand – Everything Everywhere, or… Read More »EE SIM Only Deal for Kids
Age-Restricted applications such as WhatsApp and TikTok require the phone user to verify installation and phone number by sending an SMS message to the phone. This means that with a SIM from an adult mobile network, any child can simply lie about their age (… Read More »Protecting Children from age restricted apps
