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March 22, 2005
Drunk Dial Blocker
My friend Laura informs me that Virgin Mobile has a service to help prevent their clients from drunk dialing their friends. You choose the numbers you don’t want to call in a moment of weakness, and the service prevents any calls from going through to that number until 6am. So far it’s only available in Australia, where Virgin did their homework: 95% of their customers Dial Under the Influence, and 35% do it more than once a week.
While interesting in theory, I’m not sold on this service. Do people usually plan ahead when they get that drunk? Let’s imagine you do actually have that kind of foresight… will you be able to predict whom you might be compelled to call after too many mixed drinks? Playing it safe could get expensive; it costs $0.25 ($1 AUD=$0.79 USD) for every number you block yourself from calling, every time you plan to get drunk. Hm.
And I love to state the obvious: you could just avoid getting that drunk in the first place...
Posted by Elizabeth at March 22, 2005 11:29 AM