Giving your Kids a Cellular Child Phone
by: Jay Moncliff
In today?s hectic world, more and more parents are concerned about their children?s safety, and rightly so.
Children today are involved in more and more activities and spend more time at home alone than any other generation.
Many parents are turning to cell phones as a way to keep in constant touch with their children.
As cellphone technology becomes more and more advanced and prices of phones drop further and further, many families are utilizing shared calling plans and prepaid phones to furnish their children with cell phones.
Most parents feel that children can be taught to be responsible with the devices, and the peace of mind that being able to contact your child at any time brings is more than worth the cost of the monthly billing.
Of course, a certain level of responsibility is necessary before a child should be given a cell phone.
Most parents wait until their kids are middle school age before considering it, and then there is a significant learning process before the kids are turned loose with the phones.
Children must be taught that the phone is a valuable piece of equipment, like a gameboy or scooter, and must be treated with respect.
This means no ?monkey in the middle? or games of catch with the phone.
Additionally, children must learn when it is appropriate to call for help and when it isn?t.
Any parent of a child who has called 911 as a joke or just to see what would happen will stress the importance of this lesson.
Children must also be taught the proper time and place to use their cellphones.
Most parents will set limits on the amount of calls to friends that the kids can make during the week.
Since many plans now have free weekend calling, many parents allow children to call their friends during the free periods.
Children must also be taught that the phones are not to be used during school hours, unless there is an emergency.
Most middle school aged children can grasp these concepts well, and the ?coolness? factor still associated with having a cellphone at that age is a great incentive for the kids to follow the rules.
There are several prepaid cellphone plans available as well, if you just can?t afford to take the chance that your child will run up an astronomical bill.
Several large discount retailers carry the popular Tracfone on which all time must be prepaid.
The per minute cost is significantly higher than with regular phones, but if you are providing your child with a cellphone for emergencies, this shouldn?t be a major issue.
They are easy to activate, and the minutes can be replenished via a special toll-free number or on the internet.
There are also services that allow you to track your child?s activities using Global Positioning Satellites (GPS).
These phones are available through several companies including MyChildTracker.
The service works with regular cellphones and allows the user to receive a voice message or a dot on a map on the internet.
Although this is an extra monthly fee to pay, parents of teens have found the service invaluable.
If you are considering a cellphone for your child, make sure to spend some time teaching him basic cellphone etiquette and establishing some rules for its use.
Not only will the cellphone give you piece of mind, but you may be able to teach your child about responsibility at the same time.
About The Author
Jay Moncliff is the founder of http://www.portalmoviles.net a website specialized on Moviles, resources and articles. This site provides updated information on Moviles. For more info on Moviles visit: http://www.portalmoviles.net.
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50 Emergency Uses For Your Camera Phone
50 Emergency Uses For Your Camera Phone
by: Paul Purcell
In an emergency you?ll need to provide and receive help, and after it?s over, you?ll have to return, repair, and rebuild. Central to all this is communication and documentation. Our society loves red tape, especially after disasters. Below are 50 ways the camera phone can be used in an emergency to document, record, and relay important information.
Any camera could be used for some of these things, but the phonecam carries a distinct advantage. It can immediately transmit your pictures. If you don?t have a phonecam, go with what you have, or what you can afford. Disposable cameras and digital cameras are acceptable. However, the phonecam rules, so let?s look at ways yours can be used in an emergency. These are excerpts from ?Disaster Prep 101?.
1. Last minute child ID. Whenever the family might be separated, take last-minute pictures of all family members, especially the kids,...
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Local Search Marketing Makes The Phone Ring!
Local Search Marketing Makes The Phone Ring!
by: Monte Huebsch
Local Search Marketing provides you, the business owner, with the most targeted and cost effective customer acquisition opportunity.
Your customers are more and more often searching for businesses like yours on the Internet.
Studies show that these customers have a serious buying intent.
As a local business you need to figure out how to cost effectively reach out to these customers and start the business relationship.
You need to do this even if you don't have a web site and don't want one!
The Internet has changed the way that customers are looking for your business.
The days of pulling out 2 kilos of two or more volumes of phone books are coming to an end.
People are still letting their fingers do the walking but it's on a computer keyboard.
The Kelsey research group published these statistics and trends.
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Ringtones are Red Hot
Ringtones are Red Hot
by: Amit Laufer
Ringtones are like hot cakes for the youngsters, the market is huge, estimated world wide sales of $ 2.5 Billion per year. The cost of a ringtone is ranging from $0.99 - $2.99. Survey shows that about 26% of cell phone owners downloaded at least once a ringtone. Many downloading more than one as you can customize and set the phone to play different ringtones per specific caller.
For instance if mom is calling the cell phone will play a certain ringtone and another one for dad and for your girl friend a different one so you don't have to guess who is calling you, it is totally personalized per caller.
There are four types of ringtones:
* Monophonic ringtones play a melody of a song one note at a time, with no harmonies.
* Polyphonic tones add harmonies to the song.
* Real-life ringtones include voices, quotes, or other strange, real sounds.
* Master tones are compressed clips...
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How to Rid Yourself of Phone Charges with Internet Phone Service
How to Rid Yourself of Phone Charges with Internet Phone Service
by: Jim Sherman
Session Initiation Protocol and Short Message Service (SIP and SMS respectively) refer to frameworks that allow devices to communicate directly with one another without the need for a central routing computer. It seems rather surprising that a mere framework can so radically change the face of communication, but in the few years since their explosion onto the communications world, SIP and SMS have done just that.
The brilliance of SIP and SMS is that they are able to bypass the traditional telephony model whereby a line had to be routed through a telephone hub and maintained for the duration of a call to complete the conversation.
The process of routing and establishing connection as well as maintaining connectedness throughout the call in increasingly congested phone lines is quite an expensive venture.
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What Is A SIM Card For A Cell Phone?
What Is A SIM Card For A Cell Phone?
by: Johnny McKenzie
A SIM card for the phone is like having a small computer in your computer. The SIM card stores a lot of data such as your messages, whether text or pictures, your phone number, reminders, files, value added services etc. What determine the phone number are actually the card and not the phone. In fact the mobile phone company keeps track of all your calls whether incoming or outgoing through your SIM card. They can identify the precise city and country that you have taken the phone to. In this way, the company charges you for the calls.
The SIM card is actually called a Subscriber Identity Module and is the size of a thumb impression. This tiny chip is a small microprocessor, but it packs in a lot of data and information. It?s inserted into the back of the cell phone that one is using and only then can the cell phone be activated. As soon as the cell phone is activated, it?s connected to...
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Making The Most of Long distance Phone Services
Making The Most of Long distance Phone Services
by: Dista Trifade
Long Distance Providers
Long distance phone service is offered by many companies. You should have a basic understanding of long distance calls and then choose the company that best suites your needs.
Once you switch long distance providers, it will take several days to activate your service.
Your service will only be activated on the one particular line and not on any of your cell phones.
Once the service is activated, you can make direct long distance calls from only that phone line.
If you need instant access consider using a prepaid calling card.
Calling cards work from any touch tone phone and require that you dial an access number and authorization code (PIN) to use their service.
The switched long distance service uses different technology for establishing a connection to the destination number. This is the most reliable service...
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What Is And Why Use 0800 Numbers?
What Is And Why Use 0800 Numbers?
by: Mark Vurnum
What is and Why use 0800 numbers?
It is quite impossible you haven?t noticed that more businesses each day are offering an 0800 number for people to contact them. This is mainly because during a sale there is a normal need of communication and in 90% of cases this is done by phone. Also you have to consider that all people think of money and prospect of asking for information without paying a dime is a very big plus to considering asking for information about what you are offering.
0800 numbers are known as free phone numbers. The concept behind them is very simple: people call you and don?t pay. This means the bills for each call will be paid by you or your business. Now you will ask why pay if the other one is calling. The answer is very simple: because you can gain a lot more if he is persuaded to buy your product or service. Thus being said it is easy to see that the customer will feel...
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5 Factors to Consider on Choose the Best Online Phone Cards For Your International Long Distance Calling Needs!
5 Factors to Consider on Choose the Best Online Phone Cards For Your International Long Distance Calling Needs!
by: Karo Yegyan
Before starting to learn how to find Best Prepaid Phone Cards for your Domestic and International Long Distance calling needs, lets see what factors are important to choose the right Phone Cards. First of all I want to tell you One Truth: in general there is NO such a think as ?the Best Phone Card?. It all depends on your specific calling needs, habits and purposes: (To) Where You Call? , Who Calls?, Whom You Call?, From Where You Call? and How You Call?. Most likely not all of these will apply to you (usually one or two factors apply). By taking a moment on reading and comparing several cards? Terms/Conditions and Charging Fees, based on your calling needs, you will be able to choose the Right Card and use it over and over and SAVE BIG.
1) (To) Where You Call?-this means what country or what specific city in that country...
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