The MTS “Child under supervision” service is a service developed by the company specifically so that parents can be calm about their children and not worry about where their child is now. Unfortunately, parents cannot constantly be near their children, which only increases their worries.
Description of service and benefits
The essence of the service is that with the help of the MTS mobile operator you can monitor the location of your children on a map. Thus, if your child is within the city, then his location will be displayed within a radius of 300-400 meters; outside the city, the accuracy will be slightly less - the radius will be 1.5 km. These parameters depend on the availability of cell towers and their number. If we are talking about a highway, then the nearest populated area will be displayed on the map. In this way, you will know the child’s location and understand what he is doing at the moment if, for example, the mark is set at the location of the school, at the address of additional clubs for children, or at home.
And that is not all. The service allows you to set an approximate daily schedule, that is, at 10:00 the child must be at school. If at this time he leaves school and goes beyond the established mark, then an SMS message will be sent to the parents’ phone notifying that the subscriber has gone beyond the established zone.
This service is especially useful when a parent needs to go on a business trip, go to the hospital for a few days, or send a child to summer camp. Set an approximate route of movement or permanent places of residence of the subscriber and track the information. If it is not possible to be with your daughter or son for more than one day, this service is an indispensable assistant for parents.
Who is the service available to?
Almost all of the company's subscribers can use MTS's service to track their movements. This does not depend on the phone brand. To install the service, you only need to have a GSM standard. At your discretion, you choose how you will track information: via the Internet or SMS notification. Informing via SMS is a little more convenient than tracking via the Internet, since there is no connection of the subscriber to an Internet access point. Moreover, if you do not use modern smartphones, but older phone models, then this will not be an obstacle for you, because SMS messages will be sent to your phone.
First stage: parent registration
In order to activate the “Child under supervision” service from MTS, you need to register in the service. To register, you need to send an SMS message with the text “MOM” or “DAD” to the short phone number 7788. The text of the message is written without quotes. Sometimes subscribers add a second word to the system, usually a name, for example, “PAPA SASHA.” After sending the SMS, your phone will receive a message containing your personal code. It should be remembered or written down somewhere. You will need this code to add the second parent's phone number.
Stage two: child registration
After parents have been added to the service, they should add their son or daughter’s phone number to it. This is done as follows: from your phone you must send an SMS message with the text “Child - his name - his number” to the short number 7788.
For example: Your daughter's name is Maria. Maria's phone number is 89106869435. You need to send a message with the text “Child Maria 89106869435.”
For further settings, you need to confirm from your son or daughter’s phone. The same scheme works for connecting the second parent. Only in the latter case will you need to indicate the previously received code.
How to find a child through MTS search: login
After following the instructions and connecting to the system, it’s time to try out how the search works. In order to find out the location of the subscriber, you need to send an SMS message with the text “WHERE-name” to the number 7788. Instead of the word “name,” you need to enter the child’s name, which you previously specified, for example: “WHERE IS MARIA.” By the way, you can add several subscribers to the service at the same time if you have two or three children and want to track their location. In this case, you need to send an SMS with the text “WHERE THE CHILDREN” to number 7788 and you will receive information about the location of all children at the moment.
Movement Notifications
If you wish, you can set up the service automatically so that you do not have to send an SMS message with the text “WHERE THE CHILDREN” every time. To configure, follow the instructions:
- Log in to the service by following the link http://www.mpoisk.ru/family/login/,
- Find the "Geo-zones" section
- Create the necessary geographical zones, for example, “school”, “home”, “pool”, “dance” and so on. The "Geo-zone" button is located above the map,
- Set appropriate times for these zones, for example 12:00 to 14:00 on Saturdays.
Now the service will automatically determine the subscriber’s location and send you a notification if the subscriber leaves the specified geo-fence during the appropriate hours.
There is another way to add geographic zones to the service. You can send an SMS message with the text “ZONE NAME” to number 7788, for example, “ZONE SCHOOL”.
In order to set a schedule for zones, you should send an SMS message with the text “ZONE CHILD’S NAME TIME” to number 7788. For example, you need to set a time for your daughter Maria, who must be at school from 9:00 to 13:00. Then you need to send a message with the text: “ZONE MARIA 9-13.”
Cost of the “Child under supervision” service from MTS
The cost of the service is 100 rubles per month. For this amount you can add up to three subscribers to the search.
The cost of the service includes the following services:
- Test period (free) for two weeks,
- Checking children's phone balance,
- Checking the location of children's mobile devices through signals from base stations and LBS.
If you install the free “Children’s Smartphone” application on your children’s mobile devices (the service is available for smartphones running Android), then the following services will be available to you:
- Checking the exact location of the subscriber through GLONASS/GPS systems,
- Information about the charge level of the mobile device,
- Information about applications on the subscriber's phone,
- Mobile device statistics.
Sending SMS messages to manage the service to service number 7788 is free within your home region.
How to disable the “Child under supervision” service
To disable the service, send an SMS message with the text “DELETE” to the number 7788.
If you do not want to completely disable the service, but want to delete any zone, then send a message with the text “STOP ZONE” to the same number or go to the service’s web interface and in the “Geo-zones” section delete the unnecessary address.
You can disconnect from the service only from the phone from which it was connected. If you wish, you can temporarily suspend the service. Then all information about geographical zones and time will be saved, and payment will be suspended. To temporarily stop, you need to send a message with the text “STOP” to the number 7788.
Modern children are often addicted to gadgets, and not all parents approve of this. They try to keep the kids busy with real hobbies, enrolling them in sports clubs and creative clubs. And in this situation, when children often move around the city unaccompanied by adults, having a cell phone can be of good service.
Description of the “Child under supervision” service from MTS
Parents who, due to their busy schedules, are unable to see off and greet their children will be interested in the “Child under Supervision” service. The mobile operator MTS offers to use it. Caring parents, using modern mobile technologies, will be able to determine the location of the child and monitor his movement. This option is indispensable when children go on vacation, for treatment, or to visit their grandmother and are deprived of parental supervision.
The option includes checking the account balance on children’s phones, determining their location (with an accuracy of up to 300 meters in the center of a metropolis and up to 2-3 km in the countryside), obtaining information about movements. It can be connected on a regular phone without any bells and whistles.
If the family uses smartphones, then it is additionally possible to check the battery charge, access statistical data, and control the use of applications. In this case, the location is determined using GPS with exact coordinates. To obtain such detailed information, you need to additionally download the “Children’s Smartphone” application.
MTS “Child under supervision” service: how to connect
The connection is made in several stages:
- First, one of the parents registers, who sends the corresponding message MOM/DAD NAME from his phone to the system number 7788.
- In response, a five-digit code assigned to the family is received. This password is subsequently used to connect the second parent with a command like DAD/MOM NAME CODE.
- After successfully activating the option, adults can begin adding other family members to the group (the group can contain up to 9 numbers).
- A sample request to number 7788 to connect children looks like this: CHILD NAME NUMBER.
Parents must be MTS subscribers. If any of the children uses a SIM card from another mobile operator (Megafon or Beeline), it can also be included in the MTS option. In this case, confirmation of consent to connect from the child's phone will be required. The number of requests for the location of a third-party operator's number is limited - no more than 100 per month.
The service is temporarily not available on the 4G network, so children’s devices must be switched to 2G/3G mode so that it is accessible for detection.
How to use the “Child under supervision” service from MTS
Using MTS, you can check where the child is now using the following options for accessing the service:
- mobile application on the parents’ smartphone;
- telephone version of the service user’s personal account - m.mpoisk.ru;
- personal account of the MTS service " Child under supervision", which is entered on the operator’s website www.mpoisk.ru/;
- text commands from a regular cell phone to number 7788.
Parents can always choose a convenient way to look after their children even from a distance, regardless of their own location, and log in to the service’s web interface or access their personal account from their cell phone.
Information about the address will be received after a specific SMS request to the number 7788. The WHERE CHILDREN command will allow you to find out the location of all connected subscribers; a specific child can be found with the message WHERE IS THE NAME.
You can also set up automatic notifications about the location of children in a certain time period or when moving in pre-defined geo-zones (home, school, etc.).
The places your child visits most often can be saved as geographic zones. To do this, you need to use a computer with Internet access and configure the card in the user’s personal account. An easier way is to send the ZONE NAME command from the parent’s phone when you are in the right place.
Tracking extends to all group members - children can also send a request WHERE IS MOMMY/WHERE IS DADY, unless this search is specifically disabled.
Option “Child under supervision” from MTS: how to disable
Job services MTS-Pois can be suspended, for example, during school holidays or shared holidays. To do this, you need to send a message with the word STOP to the number 7788. In this case, all information about the family will be saved, and the function will be restored after the first request for location.
If one of the parents writes the DELETE command in the system message, the option will be completely disabled for the entire family. You can also exclude an individual member of the group by sending the phrase DELETE NAME to number 7788. It is impossible to disable tracking from the phones of controlled children.
What advantages does the MTS-Search “Child under supervision” option give to parents?
If children are under the supervision of MTS, there is nothing to worry about. Users of the service will always be aware of the movements of their family members, without bothering them with endless calls, and will also be able to:
- Check whether the subscriber is actually in the designated place at a certain time;
- Receive a notification if he has left the established location (geofence).
- Eliminate access to prohibited content and control your time spent.
- Find out the battery charge level so you don’t have to worry when it turns off, why exactly the phone was unavailable, and also remind you to recharge.
- Check the status of the child’s phone account and replenish it in a timely manner.
In addition, using this option it will be easy to find a lost device, because kids can be so distracted.
It is worth considering that the location of a child’s phone can be determined with a small error. The SIM card is registered at the nearest base station, whose coverage area is several tens of kilometers.
How much do you need to pay to access the service?
The price for parents' peace of mind is not that high. For 100 rubles per month, you can check the locations of 3 subscribers an unlimited number of times.
For each request for the location of the 4th and subsequent numbers from the group, you will have to pay 5 rubles.
The fee for using the service is debited only from the parent who created the group and registered in the service MTS-Search « Child under supervision", which was subsequently entered by other relatives.
The operator provides two weeks of free use of this service, so it is possible to conveniently test the functionality without paying a subscription fee.
Parents always want to control their child, especially while he is small, and this is possible with the MTS Parental Control service. The mobile operator MTS takes care of its customers and their small children, therefore it offers a very useful service on favorable terms of connection and use. This function can be connected to a mobile phone, but it is connected much more often on computers.
What is the MTS Parental Control service?
The MTS mobile operator allows you to provide control over your children in. This option will serve as excellent protection for the child and will not allow him to view unwanted information on various sites on the Internet. After all, all adults are well aware that social pages are filled with information that negatively affects the development and consciousness of a child. It is for such purposes that “Parental Control” was developed, which is very popular among those people whose children are still in school.
With the MTS Parental Control service, a filter is installed on the desired device: mobile phone, desktop computer or laptop. It is this filter that will protect the child from unnecessary browsing on the Internet.
Connection and cost of the MTS “Parental Control” service
The option from the mobile operator MTS, offered to parents to protect their children, is a paid package, upon activation of which funds in the amount of 1.5 rubles are withdrawn from the balance every day. You can find out how to check your . But if you want to disable this service, then this operation will be free, which allows MTS subscribers to use the “Parental Control” option, check how it works, whether you like it or not, and, if desired, disable it for free at any time.
Activating the MTS Parental Control service is possible in several ways, but in any case it is necessary to configure the service for both parents and children, i.e. establish a connection.
- Using your child’s account, you must log in to the official MTS website. Then find the “Black List - Parental Control” section and install the service. An SMS message with a confirmation code will be sent to your phone. Now everything is ready.
- Connection via SMS command. To do this, you need to send an SMS message with the text 442*5 to 111. The command is typed without spaces or quotes. After some time, you will receive a confirmation code from the MTS operator. After you pass confirmation, the Parental Control service will be installed.
- Connection is also possible using the USSD command. To do this, dial the command *111*72# and click on call. USSD – MTS command is typed without spaces or quotes.
After the operation, it was the turn to connect the MTS subscriber’s mobile phone to the child’s mobile phone.
- To do this, one of the parents, on whose phone the child protection service on the Parental Control social network will be installed, must dial the command on his phone 442*4 without spaces and quotes to the MTS number 111, and click on the “Call” button. The service of monitoring your child is now available to you.
- Parents can also use the USSD command to connect and send the combination *111*71# from their phone.
When connecting this service to a computer and not a child’s mobile phone, you just need to dial the command *111*786# without spaces or quotes, then click on the “Call” button. A parent can also use SMS and send text 786 to MTS 111.
When connecting the “Parental Control” service to your computer, you will need to go to the MTS Internet settings on your computer and install a filter with the same name as the service.
Settings for the MTS Parental Control service on the child’s phone
There are several options for setting up a filter on your phone:
- Basic setup, i.e. You can set up a ban on sending or receiving certain calls or messages from your child’s mobile phone. To do this, you need to configure " ". Using the “My MTS” service, you need to enter the child’s phone number and then send a request. After accepting the terms, make the same settings on your child’s phone.
- Advanced settings for Parental Controls. It is the same as the previous option, only here you can view all calls from your child’s phone that are blocked. Once connected, the confirmation process takes place within three days.
Disabling the MTS Parental Control service
If you want to stop using the Parental Control service from MTS, you can do this in several ways.
Parents are not always able to control where their child is. This problem especially often arises for residents of large cities, which themselves are full of dangers. If mom and dad are at work every day, then their offspring has to go to school and clubs themselves. You can simply check where he is by calling, but there are other ways. For this purpose, there is a search invented by MTS called Child under supervision. After connecting it, you will always know where your child is and whether he is skipping school.
This option allows you to monitor the movements of children from a smartphone or computer via the Internet or from a regular phone via SMS service.
- A distinctive feature of the service is the ability to monitor children even if they have Megafon or Beeline SIM cards, but then the number of requests is limited to 100 per month.
- Depending on the devices you use, you may receive more or less information. The degree of accuracy of location determination will also differ, which should be kept in mind by subscribers connecting to the service.
The service can be managed from any available device, from a simple push-button phone to a tablet or computer. If you have an iOS or Android device, you should install the Where are the Children application, which will greatly facilitate the search, as you can track the child’s position on the map. Naturally, for this you will need a constant Internet connection. In addition, this way you will have access to the full functionality of the service without having to remember SMS commands.
The “Child under the supervision of MTS” service will cost you 100 rubles per month provided that the family group consists of three people.
What information is available to you?
If your child has a regular cell phone, then his location will be tracked through cell towers. In this case, the permissible error in the city center will be up to 300 meters, and outside the city it can reach 2-3 kilometers. This is a common standard for determining location across networks.
From regular mobile phones, you also have access to information about your balance and receive periodic notifications about your child’s movements when he leaves pre-set geo-zones (for example, “SCHOOL”, “TUTOR”). Management is carried out using SMS sent to number 7788.
If a child walks with a smartphone, then the error in determining the location will be much smaller thanks to the use of GPS. In addition, you will always know what battery charge it has, and also have statistics and control of applications on your smartphone via the Internet. All this will become possible by downloading the “Children’s Smartphone” application to the child’s device. But for this, the child will have to be transferred to MTS if he had another operator.
How to connect and how to disable the “Child under MTS supervision” service?
To activate the service, one of the parents must send the request “MOM/DAD NAME” (for example, “MOM OLYA”) to the number 7788. In response, you will receive an SMS with confirmation and a five-digit code that will be used to register the second parent: “PAPA VITYA a54s7.”
After this, you can add children's numbers. To do this, from the phone of the first parent send a request: “CHILD [NAME] [NUMBER]”. After this, you will need to confirm inclusion in the family group on your child’s phone. There can be no more than nine people in total, including parents. Charges for using the service are made from the account of the parent who registered first.
- To find a child via SMS, send the command “WHERE THE CHILDREN”. You will receive information about its approximate location with a geo-tag, if one was previously set.
- If for some reason you don’t need the service at the moment (the whole family went to visit grandma, for example), you can suspend it by sending the “STOP” command. This is a temporary shutdown, during which all data is saved in the system and you can easily return to use.
To completely deactivate parental controls from MTS, dial SMS “DELETE”. After this, the created family group will be deleted. Only parents can do this.
The safety of the baby is the main concern of parents. Mothers and fathers who live in big cities, who, due to work, do not have the opportunity to constantly accompany them to school, to training, or to meet them from there, are especially worried about their children. Every caring parent wants to know where the baby is, but it’s not always pleasant to pester your beloved child with calls. For those for whom it is important to track the whereabouts of children, MTS has developed a special service called “Child under the supervision of mts”, thanks to which it will be possible to accurately determine the location of sons or daughters.
How does the “Child under supervision” service work?
The “Child under supervision” function can be useful in many cases: for example, when children go to camp or on other long trips (mom and dad can watch the excursion route). And also in case the child is inattentive and is not the first time losing personal belongings. To find out where the phone is on, you need to send a short message “WHERE THE CHILDREN” to the number 7788. For those who do not want to send SMS every day, an additional function “Movement Notifications” has been created, which determines where your child is, depending on visiting certain areas.
How to activate the service from the MTS operator
To activate the service, the parent must use the MTS-Russia network, and the child may have an MTS-Russia or MegaFon package. Children's location will not be determined if they are on a 4G or LTE network: for notifications to work properly, switch your mobile device to 2G or 3G mode if possible. The phone must be GSM standard. You can track where your child is using a mobile application, through messages sent to number 7788, through your personal account on the MTS website.
Parents who connect “Child under the supervision of mts” will find it convenient to take advantage of a new feature from the developers: “Notification of movements.” In this case, they can receive SMS when children move from one location to another. To enable an interesting option, you need to go to the web interface and select the “Geo-zones” tab. Identify areas on the map that will become geographic zones: for example, “home”, “sports complex”, “work”, “grandparents”, “aunt”. Set a control mode for checking zones: for example, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
To create “Geo-zones” based on their current location, parents do not need to use a computer. To do this, you need to enter “ZONE (NAME)” in the message, for example, “GRANDMOTHER ZONE” if you are in her apartment. The surveillance boundaries will be determined according to the error, which varies depending on the network coverage. With connected notifications about movement, parents do not have to worry about the baby’s location: their phone will automatically receive SMS with the zone where the children are located within a specified period of time.
To enable the babysitting function from a mobile phone, you need to send an SMS with the following content to 7788: “ZONE CHILD’S NAME TIME.” For example, the message “ZONE Petya 8-15” will be a command to turn on the service for your son in the period from eight in the morning to three in the afternoon. supervision, parents can use the website, go to the appropriate section or send a command to the four-digit number “STOP ZONE”.
Parent registration
To activate the additional service to determine the location of your child, you need to register one of the parents. Mom or dad should send their name to 7788 as follows: “MOM OKSANA” or “PAPA FEDOR.” After some time, a five-character code will be sent in response to the command, which is intended for the family. Using this code, the babysitting service will be able to connect other family members and indicate family ties. In total, no more than 9 people (parents inclusive) can join the group.
To keep track of the baby’s whereabouts, both parents can easily register the other one using the family code. If your mother originally ordered the babysitting service, then you need to send the message “DADDY NAME FAMILY CODE” to the four-digit number. It might look like this: “PAPA FEDOR 458.” After the procedure, the father and mother must register the child in order to easily monitor his location in the future.
Child registration
The registration procedure in the MTS-Russia network is carried out as follows: a parent who has already activated the service must send an SMS with the child’s name and telephone numbers to the four-digit number 7788. Example request: CHILD ALINA 79164886589. If the child is the owner of a MegaFon network package, the registration procedure will be slightly different: when a parent sends a command to connect his son or daughter’s phone to the service, a message will be sent to the child’s number asking if he agrees to provide information about his location.
Parents whose young children are connected to the MegaFon network should remember that the number of requests will be limited. You are allowed to send no more than 100 messages per month to find out where your baby is now. When all stages of registration are completed, mom and dad can similarly connect the rest of their children to the service - up to seven more people.
How to use the service
Parents can use the search for children on the map in several ways: by sending messages, on a tablet or smartphone through a special application, in their personal account on the MTS website, using a personal computer. Each parent will be able to choose the method that is optimal for their convenience. The cost of services in each selected case will not change.
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Via SMS commands
Using the service to determine the location of a child via SMS is convenient, because the phone is always at hand, but for this you need to remember certain commands. To have a constant opportunity to find out where the baby is, write down the correct request via message in your notes. For example, “WHERE THE CHILDREN” will determine the location of all children, “WHERE VAVA/ALINA/KATYA” will show the location where the selected child is located. Using an SMS message, the service can search for mom or dad. To do this, you need the following commands: “WHERE IS MOTHER” and “WHERE IS DAD”.
Via iOS or Android app
“Where are the children” - a mobile application from MTS to search for children under supervision. The application can be added by subscribers who have Android version 2.3 and higher, or iOS version starting from 5.1. The first group of users will find the program through Google Play, the second - in the AppStore. To expand the capabilities of the application, mom and dad can install a “Children’s Smartphone” on their kids’ phones, which can collect readings about the battery charge level, the total number of calls and SMS made.
Via website
To use the web interface for the service, you need to send the message “LOGIN” from your phone. Using this short command, parents will receive a login and password to enter the personal account of the “Child under mts supervision” option. The site is convenient to use - to determine the location of your son or daughter, you only need a computer and Internet access. The “Where Now” tab will show parents the location where the child is, “Movement History” will help track early requests, and “Geo-zones” will configure the “Movement Notification” function.
For the convenience of users, a useful mobile version of the site has been optimized, which works anywhere there is telephone Internet coverage or available Wi-Fi. With its help, mom and dad can see on a map where small children are after they go to the corresponding “Child under supervision” section on the website.
How to disable the "Child supervision" function
If mom and dad want to suspend the service for a while, for example, due to departure, you need to send a short message “STOP” to the number 7788. Data about the family whose members were previously registered will be saved until the function is resumed. To completely disable the option with the loss of all data, you should send a “DELETE” request to the four-digit number specified above. To exclude children from the group whose location no longer needs to be found, you must send the text to 7788: “DELETE NAME.” For example, “DELETE OKSANA”.
Cost of the “Child under supervision” service at MTS
The monthly payment required to use the locator is 100 rubles and includes the ability to enable the “Movement Notification” option. There is no additional charge for searching the first three subscriber numbers registered on the network. Each request sent to find subscriber numbers by the locator, starting from the fourth to the ninth, costs 5 rubles. If mom and dad use the function for the first time, they are given a free trial period, which lasts for two weeks from the moment of connection.
If during the test period subscribers decide to cancel their application to use the locator, the option is disabled and no fee is charged. The opportunity to use the function free of charge for fourteen days is provided once. After the end of the test period, according to the terms of connection, an amount equal to the monthly payment should be debited from the account. It will be written off every month until the locator is turned off.
