American Teens Abuse Their Mobile Phone Privileges
August 30th, 2005 | by amarfresh |It comes as no surprise to learn that 71% of teenagers surveyed admit they enjoy unrestricted use of their mobile phones. This, as discovered via an online survey, conducted for ACE*COMM by Itracks, polled 1000 teens across North America between the ages of 13 and 18 from July 30 to August 9, 2005.
You can read the entire release below or suck up all the juicy bits now:
* 71% of teens admit to unrestricted use mobile phones.
* 38% of teens surveyed use their mobile phones to text-message their friends during school.
* 30% of teens play video games on their phones while in school.
* 26% of teens use their phones to talk to people their parents would not approve of.
Ah, but what good is a press release without a pitch. ACE*COMM offers the “V-Chip of cell phones”, a software solution for telecom service providers and enterprises.
Parent Patrol(TM) enables parents to monitor and set limits on their child’s phone use by setting boundaries on numbers called, time of day, number of minutes used, and services accessed (for example, text messaging), all as part of their family service bundle. These restrictions can be applied once or dynamically changed over an easy-to-use Web interface. Always-allow and never-allow features enable exceptions, such as permitting calls to and from parents at all times, or barring unwanted callers. This manageability greatly limits the abuse of mobile phone privileges, while also ensuring that children of all ages - not just teens - always have access to their phone services for permitted activity and for emergency and security purposes.
In other news, 71% of American teens support the American mobile content (ringtone and wallpaper) industry. :)