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Protect your mobile phone and your data
Losing your mobile phone or having it stolen can be a nightmare, just think of all those photos and videos, music, data, not to mention all those names, numbers and contacts. Yet there are a number of simple measures you can take to protect your mobile phone and all your data for free. It’s not just the handset and data that you could potentially lose, just think about how much money fraudulent phone use could cost you, potentially hundreds and hundreds of pounds!
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Protect against fraudulent phone use
Taking out a mobile phone insurance policy through http://www.phonesandmore.co.uk will cover you for calls made from your phone fraudulently. For Pay As You Go users this isn't likely to be too much of an issue but contract mobile phone customers could end up liable for hundreds and hundreds of pounds. There are, however, measures you can take to limit any liability:
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Report your phone as missing as soon as possible
Treat your phone like your bank cards, if you can’t find it and think it may have been stolen then search everywhere straight away, try calling it whilst tracing your steps when you last had it. If you still can’t find it then report your mobile phone's disappearance immediately by phoning your network provider. Your network provider will then bar further use within minutes. This is really important because some mobile phone insurance policies can be invalid if you don't report your phone as missing within 48 hrs. Once you've reported your missing phone to your network provider you'll then need a valid crime reference number for your insurance. To do this either phone or call into your local police station, make sure you get the phone number for your local police station and don’t even think about dialling 999, whilst losing your mobile phone maybe an emergency to you it may not be THAT important to the police!
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Set a calling credit limit
Most network providers 3, T-Mobile, O2, Vodafone, Orange etc will allow you to set a maximum credit limit for calls each month. If you go past the limit then further outgoing calls will be stopped. This can be really useful if you don’t make too many calls and your call level is fairly consistent each month. This will put a limit on any fraudulent calling potential.
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Bar international calls
Do you use you mobile phone to call abroad or to call home from overseas? No ..... well call your network provider and bar any international calls! This will automatically stop charges getting too out of hand before your mobile phone is reported as missing. But I go on holiday every year I hear you say, simply call your provider to allow international calling before you go and cancel again when you get back – much of this can also be done online via your network providers website so register your phone online and manage call barring from your computer.
Backup your phone
No matter how much your phone cost you the information you’ve got on it is MUCH more valuable to you. Just count up the number of names and numbers you’ve got on your phone, look at all those photos, videos and memories ..... priceless!!!
Don’t risk losing any of it, it really is so simple to protect all the contents of your phone, here’s what to do:
Connect to your PC
All mobile phones and PDAs are supplied with a cable and software to connect them to a computer or laptop. If it didn’t, then go onto your mobile phone manufacturers website where you should be able to download the software very easily for free. Go on, dig out the box your phone came in – it’s there somewhere, and in it you’ll find the USB cable and a disk, oh, and an instruction manual! Put the disk into your computer of laptop, install the software, connect your mobile phone via the USB cable and BACK UP. The entire contents of your phone will then be copied to your computer, lose the phone but not the data.
You may also be able to do this via Bluetooth or infra-red if both your phone and computer are compatible but it will take longer to do.
Alternatively you can also check out what services your network provider can offer you. Log on to your providers website and see what they offer to copy and store your data, most, if not all, providers now offer a back-up service and storage for free
There are also websites designed to store your mobile numbers and data online, www.PhonesAndMore.co.uk are able to provide this for free, simply follow the link:
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Write them down
Can’t be bothered with all this new technology well get yourself an good old fashioned address book and write down the names and numbers of all your contacts !
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Just imagine what would happen if you lost your mobile phone, think about the nightmare of losing all your contacts and data and whatever method you choose BACKUP THAT DATA NOW.
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