Parents are now alerted instantly as soon as their child’s phone reconnects to a network after being powered off or out of signal Mobile Phones are a lifeline for children as they start becoming more independent. The pre-mobile advice to carry change for a phone-box… Read More »The first network to provide “Network Watch” alerts to parents
It’s very common for a child’s first phone to be one handed down from a parent or other relative. It’s green, cost effective, and easy. Children especially love knowing they’re getting a phone that’s fit for an adult and not some ‘my first phone’ that… Read More »Handing Down a Mobile Phone to a child
When you receive your ParentShield SIM card, you will find, to the left of the SIM, the New ParentShield phone number, and your temporary setup Password. You can change the password either before, or after completing the setup process. But we highly recommend that you… Read More »Setup Help
What is the difference? Most people have grown up with mobile networks. We tend to see them as identical in capabilities, features and performance. Few people could ever list a substantial number of differences ( if any! ) between the “big name” mobile networks. Recent… Read More »Comparing an Adult Mobile Network against a Special Children’s Mobile Network
ParentShield Chrome Extension ParentShield Names4Numbers is an extension for the Google Chrome™ web browser which creates the appearance of replacing telephone numbers in the ParentShield web portal with the names of your child’s contacts. We say “creates the appearance” because all changes to the portal… Read More »Names4Numbers
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 is a very special kind of mobile network so a few of the processes that people may be familiar with from a traditional “Adults Network” may be a little different. Inbound Number Ports In the vast majority of cases, a ParentShield phone number will… Read More »Porting Process
A nationwide School Mobile Phone Ban is completely unnecessary according to specialist children’s Mobile Network ParentShield, formed in 2018. ParentShield is the only mobile network in the UK that allows you to block, at network level, all calls, SMS and Mobile Data during School hours.… Read More »School Mobile Phone Ban
We have started posting out our new generation of SIM cards that give ParentShield coverage across 152 networks – covering most of Europe and a few other places too! If you are looking to take your ParentShield SIM abroad – please do check out the… Read More »ParentShield covers more countries than ever before
