At what age would you allow your child to have a cell phone?

My oldest wants one for her birthday she will be 11 but I’m not sure about it

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goliathtree · 56-60, M

looking back, we gave ours phones way too young...I think 14. It fostered an addiction in my opinion.

How we "old timers" managed to survive without them and with paper maps is a mystery to them. Of course there were public phones around back then and not so much now.