EE, which is owned by BT, said it aims to improve children's "digital wellbeing" after receiving increasing requests for guidance from parents.
It said that under-11s should be given "non-smart" devices that have similar capabilities as old brick phones.
The recommendation - announced for the start of the new school year - comes amid growing concern about the effects of smartphone and internet usage on children's mental health and behaviour.
More than 700 people in the UK have posted on a pro-suicide website looking for someone to die with, a BBC investigation has found.
Hundreds of families are suing some of the world's biggest technology companies - who, they say, knowingly expose children to harmful products.
"I literally was trapped by addiction at age 12. And I did not get my life back for all of my teenage years."
Taylor Little's addiction was social media, an addiction that led to suicide attempts and years of depression.
"There is a problem in sport with underfuelling and underloading. That comes with the constant demands to look a certain way and, unfortunately, a vitriolic environment that comes from social media.
"I always urge everybody to be mindful of that because we're destroying people in many ways."
Young TikTok users in the UK have viewed videos that promote deadly and illegal bodybuilding drugs 89m times, a report has found.
The report, titled TikTok’s Toxic Trade, by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), looks into the promotion of bodybuilding drugs and a rise in toxic content aimed at young men.
A town in southern Spain is in shock after it emerged that AI-generated naked images of young local girls had been circulating on social media without their knowledge.
Police are now investigating and according to reports, at least 11 local boys have been identified as having involvement in either the creation of the images or their circulation via the WhatsApp and Telegram apps.
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