UK's largest mobile network tells parents: don't give under-11s smartphones

Looks like a trick, because it is not even better to give 12s or even 14s a smartphone.

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&quot;Under-11s we feel should not be given access to smartphones. They don&#x27;t need the usage of a smartphone and, actually, a feature phone - or a dumb phone, as some people call them - is more suitable.&quot;<p>Who are these nobodies lecturing us how to parent? I could care less how they feel and there&#x27;s a clear conflict of interest. It&#x27;s a bad precedent when some policy maker crawls from under the rug to explain what is &quot;suitable&quot;