Parental Cell Phone Control

AT&T this week announced a new service: "AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless," which permits parents to "stay in touch with their children while controlling the children's mobile phone use. AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless™ is a feature-rich service that allows a parent to set usage limits on a child's talk time, text messages, instant messages (IMs) and downloads, manage how and when a child can communicate, restrict access to mobile Web sites and allocate minutes among users of shared wireless plans."  If you are one who does not find multiple contradictions in the phrase "AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless" you may want to investigate the service.  Click here for the AT&T press release, here for more information on the service, which is priced at $4.99 per month per line.