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Verizon Wireless unveiled Usage Controls  |
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Verizon Wireless today unveiled Usage Controls, the most recent addition to its portfolio of tools for customers to manage their own wireless experience. Usage Controls is an easy-to-use, online service providing customers the ability to better manage and control how they use their wireless phone, as well as how their children or others on a family share or multiple-line account use their phones.
The new service expands and enhances features first introduced last year with Parental Controls, including content filters. Since 2006, Verizon Wireless has also provided customers with ratings for the content found on its V CAST service, and www.vtext.com offers a number of choices to manage or personalize text messaging options.
We hear from our customers especially the ones who are paying the bills that they like to be aware of how their wireless service is being used. Usage Controls is a simple way to take control of all the mobile phones on your account, said Mike Lanman, chief marketing officer of Verizon Wireless.
About Usage Controls
With Usage Controls, customers can stay on top of voice and data usage levels, helping avoid any unexpected charges or overages. Usage Controls will also help parents comfortably and confidently provide wireless service for their children, by managing what content they are viewing or understanding if they are accruing additional costs.
Usage Controls are accessed through the MyVerizon Web site and customers can change or update their settings under the MyServices tab.
With the service, customers can:
Set thresholds for voice minutes; Set specific limits for text, picture, IM and video messaging as part of pay-as-you-go or message bundle plans;
Set time of day restrictions for data use and messaging; Create lists of trusted and blocked numbers (calls to 911will always be allowed to connect); and Employ content filters.
Usage Controls is available for a $4.99 monthly subscription for each line. Customers must have a Nationwide Calling Plan either Family Share or single line to take advantage of Usage Controls.
Chaperone 2.0
Parents can also add Chaperone 2.0 to their accounts for $9.99 per line per month. Chaperone 2.0, together with Usage Controls, offers a full family security solution that provides assurance as to where children are and what services they are using. Chaperone 2.0 provides all the same features parents have come to rely on, along with enhancements including:
The ability to locate multiple Chaperone Child devices at the same
time; Family SMS Messaging that allows a text message to be sent to one or more Chaperone Child phones from the Chaperone Parent application or Chaperone Web site; Changes to the Child Zone settings, allowing parents to add time and date settings or to add multiple children per Child Zone; Integration with VZ NavigatorSM, allowing parents with VZ Navigator subscriptions to receive turn-by-turn directions to their child¹s location; and An improved Chaperone Web site that¹s easier-to-use.
For more information or to sign up, visit www.verizonwireless.com/usagecontrols or www.verizonwireless.com/chaperone or call 1-800-JOIN-IN.
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