New Cyta app to monitor children’s smartphones

CYTAMOBILE-Vodafone launched a new application for smart phones on Wednesday that helps parents protect their children from the dangers of the internet and control their phone contacts.

The safeMobile app, available for free to all customers with monthly contracts and prepaid cards, lets parents define which people their children can talk to and exchange SMS messages with, limit the applications the children can have access to, locate their children through GPS and monitor their childrens’ use of their mobile phones.

Parents can programme their children’s mobiles according to age and manage the app from their own computer or mobile phone. The app is compatible to Android V2.3 and newer versions.

After the introduction of the Safe Internet parental control for computers eight years ago, Cyta felt compelled to offer this new service after a survey found that 80 per cent of children aged 8 to 14 own a mobile phone and 68 per cent have smartphones.

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