A great idea for a charity fund raiser comes from the Netherlands, where “Lingue Braille” have setup a service called “A Blind Call“.
The premise is pretty simple - you save their number in your mobile with the name as A Blind Call. I assume they’ve done research into how often people leave their phones unlocked in their pockets/bags and it accidentally dials the first number in your phone book. If this number is the number dialed, you’re actually donating the cost of the call through to the Lingue Braille charity.
I think this is an awesome way of donating to a charity, I’ve lost count of the times I’ve accidentally dialed all my ‘a’ friends - I even had to move my friend Alan to be “UK - Alan” as he lives in England and I’ve made a couple of 5am phone calls to him from my bag. It would be nice to have a service like this in Australia; as much as I like donating to a charity I think the mobile costs to the Netherlands would probably exceed my income.
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Pretty good idea, but when my phone is unlocked and I accidentally call someone most times it’s the number I last dialled.
Serdar - good point, I do that a lot too. Unfortunately I did it when I was in Canada and it dialled the last number I’d called (in Australia) and went to their voicemail… for 22 minutes. I just got the bill and it cost $67 for that little mistake. Damn I wish it was going to charity instead of to my mobile company.
I don’t own a mobile.
:)