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Autistic adult child wracking up huge mobile phone bills

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Hi, have just joined the group as looking for some advice. My step-son who is autistic is almost 22 and lives at home with me and his mum (my wife). He is wracking literally hundreds of pounds every month on his mobile phone (we don't know on what exactly, but suspect downloading games but it could be other stuff). He refuses to put the contract into his mums name so she can monitor usage and restrict purchases. He has a full time job so it comes out of his wage, but that's not really the point. We don't know how to manage. Does anyone have any suggestions? 

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  • im guessing it will be mobile data use...

    i used to do this when i lived in my parents and my dad refused to allow me to have the internet. i used at first bt openzone which cost alot, then i used mobile wifi, which if your not on unlimited contract for data it will be insanely expensive as i could use 300 gb or more per month and what do they charge by data like £30 per 1 gb or something? lol ....your lad might be using mobile internet but the issue might be that its mobile data.... to fix that get a contract that has unlimited data instead if thats the case.

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  • im guessing it will be mobile data use...

    i used to do this when i lived in my parents and my dad refused to allow me to have the internet. i used at first bt openzone which cost alot, then i used mobile wifi, which if your not on unlimited contract for data it will be insanely expensive as i could use 300 gb or more per month and what do they charge by data like £30 per 1 gb or something? lol ....your lad might be using mobile internet but the issue might be that its mobile data.... to fix that get a contract that has unlimited data instead if thats the case.

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