{"id":30000,"date":"2025-07-29T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30000\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:57:08","slug":"ee-to-launch-phone-plans-which-restrict-internet-for-teens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30000\/","title":{"rendered":"EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite EE&#8217;s content restrictions not applying to content viewed using wi-fi, the firm believes its new plans still provide teen smartphone users and parents with more protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its Sim-only plans will be available for use on all smartphones and start from \u00a37 per month, when launched in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">EE&#8217;s three tiers offer different levels of protections depending on the age of the user, with its &#8220;protected&#8221; plan for pre-teens having &#8220;strict&#8221; controls while its &#8220;guided&#8221; and &#8220;trusted&#8221; plans for older teens having &#8220;moderate&#8221; controls for web access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each of the plans also has protections against receiving scam calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As the UK&#8217;s best network for families, we understand that while smartphones offer many benefits to people, there are also very real risks and challenges, especially for young people,&#8221; said Claire Gillies, head of the consumer division of BT, which owns EE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a parent of a teenager, I too have had to balance the benefits and challenges that come with giving our children their first smartphone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite EE&#8217;s content restrictions not applying to content viewed using wi-fi, the firm believes its new plans still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-30000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}