Taking care of your mobile
As mobile phones have become increasingly expensive and hi-tech, they have become considerably easier to lose or have stolen.
But the most worrying risk now is that of of theft or, even worse,
robbery.
There are over 2 million mobile phone thefts in the United
Kingdom annually and all crime statistics suggest that these numbers are unlikely to go down.
If your mobile is stolen, you are, of course, likely to suffer the immediate consequence of a loss of a valuable piece of electronic equipment. But it can also cost you much more than that.
The thief, if he or she is able to use your mobile phone is likely to run up substantial charges against your account which may be difficult to avoid as against your service provider, particularly if you did not report the theft expeditiously and did not have a lock on the phone.
Of additional untold
inconvenience is that you will lose all of your telephone contacts and, if your phone is a Smart
Phone, possibly a significant amount of business data. If this date has not been backed up elsewhere, your mobile phone theft is likely to cost you dear.
It is therefore essential that you insure your mobile phone against theft and the consequences, in addition to taking the obvious steps of taking good care of your mobile phone and ensuring that you have a PIN code to secure the phone against use by unauthorised third parties.