Stop Drunk Dialing, Virgin Mobile can help Options

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Help available for 'drunken diallers'
10:00 AEDT Tue Nov 30 2004


With Christmas parties in full swing for millions of people around Australia, a mobile phone company has launched a unique new service to stop people from making phone calls they may later regret.

Virgin mobile says it’s “dialing under the influence” service will prevent incoherent calls to ex-partners, current partners or bosses.

A recent survey by the company of more than 400 people found that 95 percent made phone calls after a drinking session, with 30 percent of calls going to exes and 19 percent to current partners.

The survey also found that the morning after more people will first reach for their mobile phone to check who they had dialled (55%) instead of reaching for painkillers (8%). More than half those surveyed also said they made up to three calls per night.

Virgin says with the new service, people will simply dial a number followed by the phone number they don’t want to call, effectively blacklisting it until six o’clock the following morning.

The new service begins on December 1, just in time for the silly season.