Help!! Teenager spending £10 per day!

Mental_Mentor

Hi everyone

My 16 year old is spending £10 per day on the internet (mostly MSN) on his pay-as-you-go mobile phone.

Despite several "discussions" he won't stop.

Does anyone know how to remove internet browsing from his Sony Erikson K550i to stop him using it altogether? He is on Orange

Many thanks
Despairing parent

121legend

Get Him A Different Phone Without The Internet Or Make Them Pay For All Their Useage Of It!! Thats Mad Money!! Might As Well Get A Laptop And Internet Put In So Can Use It Properly For Approx £9.99 A Month On Broadband??

hjb123

Is the phone in your name or his name, and where does he get the money to put in it?

Maybe at 16 years old you are going to have to let him make his own mistakes?

z4kir

I have not used the SE interface before. But I do know on Nokia's you can go to "application manager" and uninstall programs. Also it is possible to remove settings by going to Settings>Connection>Access Points

Hopefully will be of some use to you, otherwise take the phone away and replace it with a very basic handset

SemperFi

It's PAYG? Just stop giving him money to put on it?

reehsetin

Mental_Mentor wrote: »

Hi everyone

My 16 year old is spending £10 per day on the internet (mostly MSN) on his pay-as-you-go mobile phone.

Despite several "discussions" he won't stop.

Does anyone know how to remove internet browsing from his Sony Erikson K550i to stop him using it altogether? He is on Orange

Many thanks
Despairing parent

go to eg the t-mobile website, send their settings to the phone then he cant use orange to access,
or guy him to buy bundles he can buy unlimited browsing for £1 a day!! hell of a lot cheaper

Sid_Harper

Ring up the network and tell them to bar web access. They should be able to do this.

Farway

hjb123 wrote: »

Is the phone in your name or his name, and where does he get the money to put in it?

Maybe at 16 years old you are going to have to let him make his own mistakes?

Have to agree here, just stop paying, let him pay & if he can't let him get a job to do it

He may as well learn at 16 that money has to earned before it is spent, or find himself dealing with debt at 26

Mental_Mentor

Hi

Thanks for your replies. He is using EMA from college to top up then borrowing money for bus fares and lunch! Should I make him walk 13 miles & buy his own lunch - maybe am soft?

Farway

No not soft, just a being taken for a mug IMO

Can you not buy him a monthly bus pass & let him go hungry if he spends his lunch money?

You could take the handset off him & look here, new "free service" but no such thing as free lunch of course

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=561129

bobstheboy

£70 a week. Sorry you are a mug.

Bob